Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
What Will You Do?
Responsible for performing analysis, design, and implementation of Cloud services across public cloud environments with a high degree of accuracy.
Technical Execution:
Complete intermediate end to end engineering tasks for specific system assignments including developing, analyzing, configuring, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, documenting, health monitoring/alerting, and implementing based on user or system design specifications, as well as participating in troubleshooting, conducting impact analysis and escalating appropriately.
Writes and supports Infrastructure-As-Code within an approved pipeline and adheres to best practices and standards.
Support and develop cloud automatiuon of manual tasks for improved speed and consistency. This includes AWS account Automation used to provision standard and shared AWS accounts, enable services and guardrails within them, and maintain their infrastructure and details.
Identify and implement opportunities to improve and optimize Travelers’ environment, through tactical recommendations and strategic plans, working collaboratively with teams across technology organizations.
Define and implement technical requirements for Cloud solutions using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies.
Design cloud deployment automation workflows while performing analysis and resolution for infrastructure issues of intermediate complexity.
Configure and optimize cloud-based compute, storage, and networking resources ensuring efficiency, availability, and performance.
Implement monitoring systems for Cloud while ensuring adherence to security protocols and compliance requirements.
Collaborate with Technology Engineers to ensure seamless integration between infrastructure services and higher-level platform services.
Strategic Input:
Work independently on well-scoped Cloud engineering problems while prioritizing according to business objectives.
Contribute to the Cloud roadmap by identifying emerging technologies and services that align with business objectives.
Work across technology stack boundaries.
May perform occasional off-hour work on nights and weekends.
Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
Technical Expertise & Education:
Three (3) years of Cloud/platform engineering experience preferred.
Certifications: related to the following is preferred but not required:
AWS Developer Associate.
AWS SYSOPS Administrator Associate.
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional.
AWS Solutions Architect Architect.
Strategic & Business Acumen:
Developing delivery skills including the ability to participate in infrastructure team planning, learn to estimate infrastructure work efforts, assist in the applicaiton of designated infrastrcuture design strategy and methodology, test infrastructure changes following relevant examples including automation, take ownership of infrastructure components after deployment, quickly addressing issues as they arise, and collect and incorporate feedback throughout the process.
Standard problem-solving skills including the ability to debug familiar infrastructure systems easily, recognize when own knowledge or experience is lacking and reach out for guidance, and approach each new infrastructure task as an opportunity to learn, continually applying prior learnings to new challenges.
Leadership & Influence:
Strong communication skills that enable clear, concise interactions with team members and stakeholders.
Your ability to document infrastructure work in an accessible manner, ask clarifying questions on requirements, and actively listen ensures seamless collaboration.
You welcome constructive feedback and use it to continuously improve your approach to challenges.
You demonstrate intermediate leadership capabilities with a proven track record of self-motivation and initiative.
Your ability to identify and pursue personal growth opportunities in infrastructure technologies shows your commitment to professional development and positions you to take on increasing responsibilities within our team.
Domain Expertise:
Emerging cloud platform expertise including the ability to learn from research, others and through asking thoughtful questions about infrastructure architecture, open to seizing opportunities to increase knowledge of cloud services and best practices.
Intermediate level knowledge with the following:
Knowledge of process discipline and IDLC methodology.
Full-stack software development with GoLang, Python, and/or Javascript using the Vue framework.
Experience with CI/CD DevOps and configuration management tools like Jenkins, Docker, Github, GitHub Actions, and/or Puppet.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (such as Terraform TFE or AWS Cloud Formations/CDK).
API and Microservice topologies.
Cloud computing knowledge (experience implementing Cloud services).
Experience with Serverless architecture and Container platforms.
Knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as Network, Database, Server, Storage etc. preferred.
What is a Must Have?
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in work experience plus 2 years of cloud engineering experience.
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.