Kin Insurance-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
501-1,000 employees

As Staff DevOps Engineer on Kin’s Platform Operations team, you’ll be a key part of building the technology and culture that empowers our engineers to innovate securely at speed. Our primary tech stack is Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL databases, with Terraform for IaC and delivery supported by GitHub Actions and Spacelift stacks that take code live to AWS many times a day. In your highly cross-functional role, you’ll be working with people across the tech org and beyond, bringing our infrastructure and development platform up to new standards and building out solutions for secure self-service and a delightful - but not insulated - developer experience.

  • Continuously improving automation and tooling to streamline deployment processes and increase efficiency and self-service functionality
  • Supporting a positive and proactive culture of collaboration across Kin
  • Utilizing your understanding of AWS services and working with peers to optimize infrastructure performance, scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency
  • Designing and implementing solutions to ensure system changes continuously adhere to regulatory compliance and support Kin’s security posture
  • Respond to issues, incidents and problems in real time
  • Working with engineers to build their understanding and skills for good citizenship of their infrastructure and pipelines
  • Diving deep with internal stakeholders to make sure our infrastructure and development platform are mutually beneficial to our application and data architecture
  • Implementing, monitoring, logging, and alerting in Datadog to ensure high availability and performance of our systems
  • Collaborating with IT and Security on RBAC
  • Mentoring and supporting teammates
  • Updating documentation
  • Staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies
  • Extensive experience in DevOps or related roles, with a strong focus on CI/CD automation and infrastructure management
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including thoughtful pushback
  • Proven success mentoring engineers
  • Demonstrated success in creating compliant, self-service delivery pipelines
  • Proficiency in GitHub Workflows and Actions for orchestrating CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong skills with Terraform/OpenTofu for infrastructure as code (IaC) development
  • Deep knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, RDS, Redis, Lambda, and IAM
  • Strong shell scripting skills, Docker, and YAML
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while finding ways to preempt firedrills
  • A fast learner, ready to bring previous knowledge to this position and continue developing along the way
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Sidekiq
  • Datadog
  • Tonic
  • Spacelift
  • Decoupling monoliths
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability Insurance options
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Elective voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, legal assistance and pet insurance
  • Competitive salary and company equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 401K with company match of up to 4% of eligible earnings
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees (employees typically take 15-20 days annually), along with 8 company-observed holidays
  • Paid parental leave program that provides 100% salary continuation of up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non-birthing parents
  • Continuing education and professional development opportunities
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