Reliability & Automation Engineer

Job ID: H#58 - Reliability & Automation Engineer

This is a 4 month contract to hire opening.

MUST be within 25 miles proximity to a Hartford office. MUST come into the office 3 days a week

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.   

Here is an exciting new role that will expand your knowledge and your network, and help you learn more about our business.

The Reliability Engineering (RE) and Automation team is seeking a highly energetic Staff Reliability Engineer to join the Automation Engineering Team.  The ideal candidate should have a strong background in SRE and IT operations, as well as proficiency in various programming languages.

Position requires a strong technical understanding of complex IT environments, cloud, and evolving technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Champion the migration of applications to open-source platforms, PaaS, containers, serverless, event-based designs, and other cloud technology standards for cloud-enablement and platform agility
• Execute the delivery of automation use cases to minimize manual activities for cloud migrations
• Collaborate with team members regarding process improvement opportunities and end to end automation enhancements.
• Manage communications and share industry best practices to support the RE Community of Practice
• Accountable for the identification, development, catalog, and maintenance of reusable assets
• Deliver cost effective innovative strategies to support emerging business opportunities
• Ability to design systems and implement new software architecture patterns
• Drive the implementation of processes: Incident Management and response skills, blameless postmortems, Change Management and Problem Management
• Execute the strategic roadmap to support Reliability Engineering
• Deliver increased automation and self-healing capabilities
• Appy strong problem-solving skills strategic mindset with a focus on scalable continuous delivery approach
• Provide technical expertise to automate toil reduction
• Coach and mentor Automation Engineers and other resources as appropriate
• Deep software and systems engineering expertise

Qualifications:

• 8 + years of relevant technical experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Technology Management, or associated degree
• Ability to interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups in a matrix organization
• Solid understanding of AWS, DevSecOps practices, SAFe Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with programming languages (Python, Lambda, Go, Java or JavaScript/Node.js)
• Knowledgeable of Amazon Web Services including but not limited to EC2, S3, ECS, RDS, CloudWatch, SNS, CloudTrail, SQS, Service Catalog.
• Expertise with cloud platforms like AWS and microservices architecture
• Familiarity with programming languages (Python, Lambda, Go )
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation & Terraform templates, YAML files, build specifications
• Must have exceptional communication skills (written, oral, presentation and facilitation)
• Understanding of robotics and artificial intelligence to improve services
• Experience in strategy development to achieve business objectives
• Understanding of networks and experience troubleshooting issues
• Hands-on application development and production support is a plus
• Up to date knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies in DevOps, Cloud Engineering and AI/ML
• Familiarity with enterprise software solutions such as GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, Ansible etc.
• Ability to develop, manage and communicate frameworks: e.g., Cloud Security Alliance
• Hands on experience with Observability tools such as Dynatrace, SPLUNK, CloudWatch, CloudTrail is a plus
• Solid understanding of technologies that support the services offered for cloud applications
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

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