Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cytora, now part of Applied Systems, is transforming how insurers and brokers connect through their AI-powered platform. The Senior Platform Engineer will help build the Underwriting Productivity Suite, focusing on infrastructure, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines to enhance efficiency for underwriters.
Responsibilities
- Helping to build Cytora’s Underwriting Productivity Suite, a serverless based web application that increases the efficiency and effectiveness of underwriters thereby reducing expense ratios and delivering profitable growth to our customers
- Joining the platform team, which is responsible for the infrastructure of our application, our monitoring systems and our CI/CD pipelines
- Managing infrastructure as code, using terraform
- Using third party systems such as circleci, datadog, auth0, thoughspot
- Scaling infrastructure and delivering quickly based on the level of complexity needed
- Providing feedback to product managers and the wider company
- Contributing to roadmaps
- Suggesting features and improvements based on technical understanding
Skills
- We are looking for someone who is customer-centric, values-driven, and collaborative with great communication skills
- Strong proven experience in serverless: Lambda/SQS/SNS/S3/Aurora Serverless/GCP Vertex AI/GCP BigQuery
- Strong experience using a range of AWS services but not limited to: RDS Aurora Postgres, APIGW, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SES, Cloudfront, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager
- Experience building and maintaining multi-region deployments
- Terraform/Terragrunt experience as this is part of our stack with Single Tenant deployments
- Experience using an OOP language, we use Python
- Experience using Terraform
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VPC configuration and security
- ECS and Fargate are a plus
- Experience designing both single tenancy and multi tenancy solutions
- Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS
- Maintaining CI/CD pipelines (we use CircleCI)
- Monitoring, we use Datadog logs, APMs, profiling, App security
- Prior experience using GCP is a plus, but not essential
- Awareness of GDPR compliant systems
- Experience building event-driven, serverless applications
- Cloudflare/Orca/Vanta
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working and remote options
- Professional development budget & conference access
- Annual company retreats
- A mission-driven culture that puts people first
- Depending on the role, team members may also be eligible to participate in additional compensation plans such as bonus and commission.
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