Job Application for Cloud Architect at Sureify

Who We Are

Sureify’s mission is to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry by helping carriers acquire, service, and engage their customers through any distribution channel. Sureify’s products empower life insurance carriers, agents, employees, and customers to have the digital experiences employees and consumers have come to expect in the rapidly advancing tech climate.

We’re looking for a talented and results-oriented Cloud Architect to work remotely as a key member of Sureify’s engineering team. You’ll help build and evolve our next-generation cloud-based compute platform for digitally-delivered life insurance. You’ll be a key voice in deciding what technologies and practices we use to operate our software. You’ll consider many dimensions such as strategic goals, growth models, opportunity cost, talent, and reliability. You’ll collaborate closely with the product development team on platform feature architecture such that the architecture aligns with operational needs and opportunities. No one knows all technologies, so you’ll need to research unfamiliar technologies. You’ll develop automation, document practices for operating our software, and engage with the team to ensure that practices are followed. With a deep understanding of our software, you will develop monitoring beyond CPU and memory utilization. You will also:

Drive decisions such as "Will we use a SaaS or self host the various components of our architecture?".
Develop run books for emergency situations and execute tests of those run books.
Coordinate third-party reviews of our system.
Design and automate load tests.
Track and improve MTBF and MTTR
Share your keen knowledge with less experienced members of our operations team.

We feel great about the software we’ve built - you might enjoy our CQRS, event source architecture built atop Temporal. With the number of customers growing and growing, it’s time for us to mature the fabric our software runs on. This is your opportunity to make a large impact at a high-growth enterprise software company.

Critical to the Role

Strong background in software engineering
Passion for infrastructure and experience with cloud deployment design and architecture
Experienced with automation tools and operations methodology
Strong communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a close-knit team
Strong focus on code quality, repeatable processes, automation, and infrastructure defined in code
Experience building secure applications and methodically improving application performance (Profilers, APM tools, Security scanning tools)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree or experience

Nice to haves

Experience with build and release engineering
Experience with CI/CD tooling, e.g. GitHub actions, Jenkins
Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS

Base annual salary

$200,000 - $250,000 USD

Our Guiding Principles

Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work. We want our employees to flourish at Sureify. We do not fawn over status or titles, instead, we honor effort and intelligence. The best idea wins no matter which colleague proposed it. We do not shortcut our mission with overblown claims or false promises. Sticking to the truth is both a strategy and a principle for us.

Sureify is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

If you are a California resident, please be aware Sureify collects personal information from you during the application process, which may include your name, contact details, employment history, and educational background, in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We use this information solely to evaluate your candidacy for employment and may share it with internal hiring personnel as needed.

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