DevOps Platform Developer

Rival

3d•Remote

About The Position

At Rival Insurance Technology, we’re modernizing insurance technology with scalable, secure, and cloud-native solutions. Our teams are building the next generation of platforms that power our products and customers. We’re investing in Platform Engineering to give developers the tools, infrastructure, and guardrails they need to ship reliably at scale. This role is about enabling developers through automation, infrastructure-as-code, and secure cloud practices—not just supporting workloads. You’ll provision infrastructure, optimize cloud resources, and ensure Rival’s production environments are secure, scalable, and reliable.

Requirements

3+ years in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform roles.
Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS/PaaS (VMs, AKS, SQL, networking).
Strong knowledge of CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).
Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, OpenTofu, or Bicep).
Strong background in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
Scripting/automation with PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
Experience supporting and maintaining production environments with performance and reliability focus.
Comfortable working cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

SQL Server performance tuning/tracing.
Experience with multi-tenant or single-tenant hosted environments.
Networking fundamentals in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

Build and manage cloud infrastructure in Azure using Terraform/OpenTofu/Bicep.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate build, test, and deployment.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting with modern observability tools.
Manage Kubernetes (AKS), containers, databases, queues, storage, and networking services.
Ensure security best practices in the cloud: RBAC, secrets management, access controls.
Maintain and support production environments, ensuring availability, performance, and resilience.
Partner with developers to provide reusable templates, pipelines, and infrastructure patterns.
Contribute to the platform roadmap and shape Rival’s cloud strategy.
Troubleshoot and optimize platform performance with reliability in mind.