DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

Accelerant is building a new platform that will serve as the backbone of how risk is exchanged in the future. As a DevOps Engineer at Accelerant, you will be instrumental in helping us design, build, and run a highly reliable and scalable platform.

This position is open to remote candidates across the U.S. and Canada.

If you join our team, these are some of the things you’ll be doing :

• Implement and drive adoption of site reliability engineering best practices for observability, scalability, availability, compliance and resilience.
• Focus on continuous improvement and technical standards drive improvements in productivity, monitoring, tooling and set industry best practices.
• Act as the go-to-person for any production issue. Troubleshoot and monitor until successful mitigation, communicate effectively, create postmortems, document and implement learnings.
• Build, deploy and manage CI / CD workflows which leverage GitOps practices.
• Build, manage, and deploy architectures using Terraform (AWS) and Helm (EKS).
• Design and build the tools, frameworks, systems, and processes that engineers use to build, integrate, deploy, scale, and manage their software.
• Automate tasks across the full CI / CD lifecycle to create an efficient developer experience and reduce manual toil.
• Participate in on-call rotations. When on-call, you are expected to drive the troubleshooting and mitigation activities.

What you bring to the table :

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience building and scaling web applications.
• Experience with running a production environment in AWS, other cloud providers are nice to have.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with experience developing and instilling a culture of operational maturity.
• Strong coding ability.
• Passionate problem-solving mindset.
• The ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers.
• Reputation for getting things done.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Desire to learn and grow.

Desired qualifications :

• Experience with AWS (other cloud providers are nice to have)
• Experience with orchestration and serverless technologies like Kubernetes and Lambda.
• Experience with event-driven architectures on Apache Kafka.
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform
• Experience building microservice CI / CD pipelines
• Experience with deployment tools such as Helm, GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemtry, and Splunk.
• Experience with SQL-Like databases and data caching strategies such as Postgres, Snowflake, and Redis and data transformation technologies such as DBT.
• Experience with solving and driving implementations for compliance controls.
• Bonus : Experience with orchestrating ML models and running models in production environments.

Enjoy our comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your diverse needs and support your well-being :

• Work-life balance : We believe that taking time to rest and recharge makes us all better. That’s why we offer flexible time off and encourage our team to take the time they need to prioritize their health and well-being.
• Travel : We value face-to-face connections and believe that in-person interactions can enhance collaboration and build stronger relationships.

Travel could be a small part of your role, with opportunities to connect with your team and our members in person.

About Accelerant :

Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers.

Accelerant was founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts who shared a vision of rebuilding the way risk is exchanged so that it works better, for everyone.

The Accelerant risk exchange does business across more than 20 different countries and 250 specialty products, and we are proud that our insurers have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating.

For more information, please visit www.accelerant.ai