Staff Software Engineer - Reliability

Staff Reliability Engineer - IE07KE

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.

The Hartford is seeking a Staff Software/Reliability Engineer within the Personal Insurance organization and will have end-to-end technical accountabilities in reliability engineering, production support, and application operations for a product within personal lines portfolio in a highly distributed, integrated, multi-platform environment

We are looking for a Staff Reliability Engineer who:

• Has a strong technical understanding of complex traditional and modern architectures and systems
• Fundamentally treats Production Support as a Software and Systems Engineering Problem
• Has natural inclination to automate and drive self-healing capabilities
• Has innate curiosity of how systems work and is a continuous learner
• Applies pragmatic design patterns, reliability, and incident management best practices to build solutions for complex problems

• Expertise in the full stack including software components, database, platforms and network infrastructure
• Guide the use of best-in-class software engineering standards, tools, and design practices to enable highly available and performant customer-facing applications.
• Lead adoption of metrics of overall application health - availability, performance, monitoring, alerting, quality, currency and resiliency
• Perform troubleshooting, analysis, research and resolution of production incidents using advanced query and programming skills
• Oversee application quality and integrity during production support changes through the software development life cycle, including accuracy of technical designs, build, testing and implementation.
• Ensure operational excellence. Independently drive the triaging and service restoration of all critical incidents and minimize the impact to business.
• Drive root cause analysis and permanent solution through sound problem management practices.
• Ensure stability and performance of the systems in application portfolio across both production and pre-production environments.
• Continuously improve the observability of our technology stack by evolving the usage of logs, metrics, tracing, dashboards, monitoring alerts, and integration of metrics with CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure transition from development to production meets or exceeds all operational requirements.
• Ensure strict adherence to IT regulatory and compliance requirements for all applications, drive remediation of all internal, regulatory and SoX audit findings.
• Ensure that all technical documentation and artifacts are accurately prepared, maintained and cataloged.

• Degree in Computer Science or related disciple with at least 4+ years of hands-on experience in IT systems analysis, design, development and application support.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and concepts with prior or current development experience in one or more of the following languages: C#/.Net , Java, Restful and Soap Web Services, HTML5, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, JSON, XML
• Thorough understanding and experience with SQL/T-SQL/PL SQL on SQL Server or Oracle relational database technologies
• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, ADO, Jenkins, Nexus, Rally, SonarQube etc..
• Familiarity with observability tools like Dynatrace and Splunk is essential
• Willingness to learn new product-based technologies and experience with Insurance Policy suites such as Duck Creek or Guidewire configuration is a plus.
• Solid understanding of technologies that support the services offered for cloud applications (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is essential and Gen AI solutions is a plus
• Firm analytical and problem-solving skills