Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

You'll be joining an engineering team that is responsible for the care and feeding of an award-winning, high performing, reliable, secure, and scalable technology platform. This platform integrates best of the breed SaaS solutions in a cloud native environment complex architecture. We are looking for engineers who are passionate, team players and poised to make difference. You are proactive, thrive in a startup like environment with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility building customer focus product.

What you'll do in this role

• You will lead Observability Platform for Swift Term and Perm.
• Build, implement and support Cloud applications in AWS Environments, and manage AWS Cost
• You will work with various teams and departments to streamline and improve operational efficiency
• Identify and proactively develop solutions to automate manual processes
• Proactively work on identifying efficiencies and overall release process for AWS Lambda - shared lib management, cold start for lambda, mem allocations
• You will ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats includes masking, encrypting, etc.
• You will create and manage logging, alerting framework, dashboards and formats.
• Make improvements API's that are continuously deploy and update through an automated CI/CD pipeline.
• Perform root cause analysis of production errors, resolve technical issues and come with architecture design that would reduce errors
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Orchestrate resources to log/track/monitor the health of the distributed system

What will differentiate you?

Proven past technical accomplishments and a GitHub link

What we offer you

"If you want to invest in yourself and build a career, this is a great place to work. If you don't want to put in the effort to learn the industry and become a student of the business (it takes real effort!), there are easier places to work." Cris H. - AVP Internal Sales, Training and Development

"Symetra is inclusive of all employees regardless of their personal differences." Darrell J. - Actuary III

"Symetra values learning. Symetra has so many resources - whether that is the Student of the Business courses, sponsorship of professional certifications, or just individual employees being so willing to teach and answer questions." Felicia D. - Financial Reporting Lead Senior Analyst

Benefits and Perks

We don't take a "one-size-fits-all" approach when it comes to our employees. Our programs are designed to make your life better both at work and at home.

• Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
• Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
• Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
• Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching

Want more details? Check out our Symetra Benefits Overview

Compensation

Salary Range: $115,800 - $192,700 plus eligibility for the company annual bonus program.

Requirements

Your skills and experience

• 5+ years of combined software develops experience as engineer in an agile environment with excellent design, problem solving and debugging skills
• 2+ years of hands-on coding experience in languages - Python, TypeScript, etc
• 2+ years of experience building and deploying efficient code and creating complex architecture and experience in AWS Serverless deployment patterns
• Good working knowledge of TypeScript is required
• NoSQL (DynamoDB) for data management and database scheme design preferred
• Experience with solving issues with little to no supervision, capable of analyzing, planning, designing and owning complex or vaguely defined issues
• Collaborative attitude that incorporates various perspectives and puts customer before technology
• Problem-solving attitude and collaborative team spirit
• AWS certification will be a big plus

We empower inclusion.

At Symetra, we aspire to be the most inclusive insurance company in the country. We're building a place where every employee feels valued, respected, and has opportunities to contribute. Inclusion is about recognizing our assumptions, considering multiple perspectives, and removing barriers.

We accept and celebrate diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives, because lifting each other up fuels thought and builds a stronger, more innovative company. We invite you to learn more about our efforts here.

Creating a world where more people have access to financial freedom.

Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals and feel confident about the future. In our daily work, we're guided by the principles of Value, Transparency and Sustainability. This means we provide products and services people need at a competitive price, we communicate clearly and openly so people understand what they're buying, and we design products-and operate our company-to stand the test of time. We're committed to showing up for our communities, lifting up our employees, and standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Join our team and help us create a world where more people have access to financial freedom.

For more information about our careers visit: www.symetra.com/careers

Work Authorization

Employer work visa sponsorship and support are not provided for this role. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States at hire and must maintain authorization to work in the United States throughout their employment with our company.

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