Site Reliability Engineer - NIPR

Job Description:

The National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR), an affiliate of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), has an exciting opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer to join the team. This is a full-time, remote position.

The Site Reliability Engineer works in close collaboration with other NIPR Technical Operations team members to design, build, and support NIPR's Kubernetes platform and other shared cloud infrastructure to meet the demands of NIPR's applications. The ideal candidate possesses a broad technical foundation with one or more specialized areas of expertise. This role is made for those who love problem-solving, have a keen interest in learning new things, and a strong desire to automate repetitive work.

Responsibilities include:

• Troubleshoots production issues and participates in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations

• Encourages and builds automated processes wherever possible

• Automates IT operations including monitoring, incident response, patching, backups, SOC compliance, etc.

• Contributes to general documentation, runbooks, and system designs

• Plan, design and execute solutions within infrastructure team to reach specific goals agreed within the team.

• Plan and execute configuration change operations both at the application and the infrastructure level.

• Collaborates and communicates closely with teammates

• Participates in shared after hours and/or weekend on-call rotations as needed

Skills and experience:

• Using and provisioning public cloud infrastructure

• Managing VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud), security groups, and load balancers

• Using version control tools such as Git

• CI/CD automation

• Strong troubleshooting techniques

• In-depth knowledge of networking, security, or performance engineering

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Go, or Python

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Linux system administration

• Distributed computing

• Using infrastructure as code and/or configuration management tools

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or associates in applied science specific to computer science and one to three years of related work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Preferred experience:

• Preferred Kubernetes experience

Compensation:

$83,846 to $115,000, to be commensurate with experience and education

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