DevOps Engineer I

Job Description

Job Description

65,000-$85,000 VIP Bonus

65000 - $85000 / year

Application Deadline : 2 / 24 / 2025

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our DevOps teams are tightly coupled and integrated with the culture, tools, practices and patterns of the rest of our software engineering organization. They not only “keep the lights on” for our systems and networks, but also empower our other development teams with cutting edge tools and capabilities to bring Vertafore products to market as quickly as possible. All of this will be accomplished with cutting edge, lean-agile, software development methodologies. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career.

Working as a DevOps Engineer at Vertafore, you won’t have an average day. One day you might be working to automate infrastructure deployment, making sure that we can build database clusters with one command. The day after you might be working with a team to make sure that they have a great build and release process. You will get an amazing opportunity to work with and learn many cutting edge technologies and skills. DevOps plays many roles in the organization, and you’ll be working on CI / CD processes, production support, infrastructure as code, and a multitude of other technologies.

If you have a passion for technology, are hungry to learn, and are looking for a creative, fun and friendly workplace where you get to develop software that will transform the insurance industry, we would love to get in touch with you.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities :

Qualifications :

Have experience working with various operating systems. Primarily Windows and Linux.

Have an understanding of how code is written. Though as DevOps we don’t write a lot of Java or C# code, it’s helpful to understand how the teams work.

Have experience in one or more scripting languages. We use a lot of Python and some PowerShell, but experience in other scripting languages is useful as well.

Are eager to dive in and learn, with a willingness to be coached

Enjoy solving problems as part of a team

Have a strong sense of ownership

Strong diagnostic and analytical skills

Follow industry trends and the open source community

Care about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code and infrastructure

Are curious and avid learners

Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions

Are self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers

Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them

Love to collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions

Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment

Have experience working in an Agile environment

Experience with windows OS

Have degree in Computer Science or similar valuable experience

Have some experience with cloud technologies. We use AWS and Azure, but all cloud technologies are useful.

Know what “Infrastructure as Code” means

Have experience with one or more infrastructure automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc..)

Understand what goes into a CI / CD pipeline

Have used one or more build tools (Jenkins, GitLab, VSTS,etc..)

Additional Requirements and Details :

Travel required up to 10% of the time.

Located and working from an office location.

Occasional lifting and / or moving up to 10 pounds.

Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

Frequent sitting and / or standing.

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.

• Bias to Action : We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
• Win Together : We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
• Show Up Curious : We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
• Say It, Do It : We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
• Customer Success is Our Success : We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
• We Love Insurance : We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings .

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.

Salary : $65,000 - $85,000