Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer

About Sureify

Sureify is transforming the life insurance and annuity industry through cutting-edge digital solutions that enable insurers to engage, sell, and service their customers with ease. Our mission is to modernize the insurance experience - empowering carriers with scalable technology that enhances customer engagement, streamlines operations, and drives meaningful digital transformation. At Sureify, we foster an environment that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

About the Role

We’re looking for a talented and results-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer / Lead DevOps Engineer to work as a key member of Sureify’s engineering team. You’ll help build and evolve our next-generation cloud-based compute platform for digitally-delivered life insurance. You’ll consider many dimensions such as strategic goals, growth models, opportunity cost, talent, and reliability. You’ll collaborate closely with the product development team on platform feature architecture such that the architecture aligns with operational needs and opportunities. With the number of customers growing and growing, it’s time for us to mature the fabric our software runs on. This is your opportunity to make a large impact at a high-growth enterprise software company.

Key Responsibilities :

Collaborate with key stakeholders across our product, delivery, data and support teams to design scalable and secure application architectures on AWS using AWS Services like EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambdas, VPC, RDS, ElastiCache provisioned via Terraform

Design and Implement CICD pipelines using Github, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, and Helm to automate application deployment and updates with key focus on container management, orchestration, scaling, optimizing performance and resource utilization, and deployment strategies

Design and Implement security best practices for AWS applications, including Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, container security and secure coding practices

Design and Implement best practices for Design and implement application observability using Cloudwatch and NewRelic with key considerations and focus on monitoring, logging and alerting to provide insights into application performance and health.

Design and implement key integrations of application components and external systems, ensuring smooth and efficient data flow

Diagnose and resolve issues related to application performance, availability and reliability

Create, maintain and prioritise a quarter over quarter backlog by identifying key areas of improvement such as cost optimization, process improvement, security enhancements etc.

Create and maintain comprehensive documentation outlining the infrastructure design, integrations, deployment processes, and configuration

Work closely with the DevOps team and as a guide / mentor and enabler to ensure that the practices that you design and implement are followed and imbibed by the team

Required Skills & Experience :

Minimum 6+ years of experience as DevOps Engineer

Proficiency in AWS Services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, SES, SQS, ElastiCache, Redshift, EFS

Strong Programming skills in languages such as Groovy, Python, Bash Shell Scripting

Experience with CICD tools and practices including Jenkins, Spinnaker, ArgoCD

Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform or Cloudformation

Understanding of AWS security best practices, including IAM, KMS

Familiarity with Agile development practices and methodologies

Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues

Proficiency in using observability, monitoring and logging tools like AWS Cloudwatch, NewRelic, Prometheus

Knowledge of container orchestration tools and concepts including Kubernetes and Docker

Strong teamwork and communication skills with the ability to work effectively with cross function teams

Nice to haves

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional

Why Join Sureify?

At Sureify, you’ll be part of a collaborative, innovation-driven culture where your expertise will directly influence the quality and success of products transforming the life insurance landscape. You’ll work alongside passionate technologists and industry experts, tackling complex challenges with cutting-edge technologies while helping shape the future of digital insurance experience.