What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr DevOps Engineer position at Sureify?
Who We Are
Sureify's mission is to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry by helping carriers acquire, service, and engage their customers through any distribution channel. Sureify's products empower life insurance carriers, agents, employees, and customers to have the digital experiences employees and consumers have come to expect in the rapidly advancing tech climate.
Sureify is modernizing the life insurance industry through cutting-edge SaaS platforms that help carriers digitally engage, service, and sell to their customers. We're growing fast and looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale and secure our cloud-native infrastructure.
What You'll Do
$140,000—$175,000 USD
Our Guiding Principles
Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work. We want our employees to flourish at Sureify. We do not fawn over status or titles, instead, we honor effort and intelligence. The best idea wins no matter which colleague proposed it. We do not shortcut our mission with overblown claims or false promises. Sticking to the truth is both a strategy and a principle for us.
Sureify is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
If you are a California resident, please be aware Sureify collects personal information from you during the application process, which may include your name, contact details, employment history, and educational background, in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We use this information solely to evaluate your candidacy for employment and may share it with internal hiring personnel as needed.
Sureify's mission is to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry by helping carriers acquire, service, and engage their customers through any distribution channel. Sureify's products empower life insurance carriers, agents, employees, and customers to have the digital experiences employees and consumers have come to expect in the rapidly advancing tech climate.
Sureify is modernizing the life insurance industry through cutting-edge SaaS platforms that help carriers digitally engage, service, and sell to their customers. We're growing fast and looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale and secure our cloud-native infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and automation.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes across multiple environments.
- Support containerized workloads (Docker/Kubernetes) and drive best practices for reliability & performance.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks to enhance system uptime and incident response.
- Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams to strengthen platform architecture.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across networking, systems, and application layers.
- Mentor junior engineers and champion DevOps culture across the organization.
- 5–8 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SRE.
- Strong expertise in AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Docker, GitHub/Git-based workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficient in scripting with Bash and/or Python.
- Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, VPN, routing, subnets, load balancers).
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to thrive in a fast-moving, remote-first environment.
- Kubernetes (EKS) experience.
- Database experience (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB).
- Knowledge of security best practices, IAM governance, and cloud cost optimization.
- Experience in regulated environments (insurance/finance/healthcare).
$140,000—$175,000 USD
Our Guiding Principles
Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work. We want our employees to flourish at Sureify. We do not fawn over status or titles, instead, we honor effort and intelligence. The best idea wins no matter which colleague proposed it. We do not shortcut our mission with overblown claims or false promises. Sticking to the truth is both a strategy and a principle for us.
Sureify is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
If you are a California resident, please be aware Sureify collects personal information from you during the application process, which may include your name, contact details, employment history, and educational background, in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We use this information solely to evaluate your candidacy for employment and may share it with internal hiring personnel as needed.
Salary : $140,000 - $175,000
