What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer I position at Vertafore?
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..)
Skills & Requirements
Additional Requirements and Details :
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.
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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.
Qualifications Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you'd like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and / or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
Why Vertafore is the place for you :
Why Vertafore is the place for you :
PPO & high-deductible options
Health Care FSA
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.
The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including : start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including : start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota, MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
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Salary : $65,000 - $85,000
