Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Assured is on a mission to modernize insurance by providing large insurers with essential software solutions for efficient claims processing. They are seeking a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design and build infrastructure, automate processes, and enhance security while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build infrastructure and tooling to support the Assured platform, from scaling existing products to enabling entirely new product initiatives
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management with Terraform and Terragrunt to ensure consistency, repeatability, and reliability across a large number of customer environments
• Evolve our platform foundations across AWS (EKS, SQS, Aurora, S3), balancing innovation with sustainability
• Partner with product and engineering teams to improve performance, and reliability across services
• Strengthen our security posture, implementing best practices and ensuring compliance with industry standards
• Improve developer experience, building systems that make it easier and faster for teams to deliver value
• Lead, mentor, and collaborate with engineers across the company, raising the bar on technical excellence and infrastructure practices

Requirements:

• Experience architecting and operating highly available database solutions, ideally Aurora PostgreSQL
• Strong experience with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes in a scaling environment
• Ability to autonomously design, build, and scale high-quality infrastructure from early stages to maturity
• Proactive identification and solving of critical infrastructure problems, collaborating across teams where needed
• Strong engineering background and history of designing resilient systems
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and comfortable working with minimal oversight
• Care deeply about reliability and building sustainable and durable systems
• Default to automation but know when pragmatism and simplicity win the day
• Make others better through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance, and mentorship
• Navigate ambiguity and persist through challenges, rallying others when necessary
• Ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate with engineers across the company, raising the bar on technical excellence and infrastructure practices
• Experience working in a start-up environment
• Expertise and understanding in deploying and automating the delivery of modern SaaS platforms at scale
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and tooling to support a platform