[Remote] Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer- AI

Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform seeking a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to build world-class infrastructure in public cloud, primarily GCP. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable and secure cloud infrastructure while optimizing CI/CD pipelines using AI insights and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

The Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer will be responsible for:

• Building infrastructure/systems that balance operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
• Improving the observability of our systems to anticipate and address issues before they become critical, leveraging strategies like infrastructure as code, system operational and health metrics, CICD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Contributing to DevOps roadmaps, helping balance priorities like modernizing past infrastructure, supporting new projects and deployments, and improving/hardening systems where it is needed most.
• Integrating AI-powered tools into DevOps workflows for Predictive monitoring, Anomaly detection, Intelligent alerting, and Auto-remediation.
• Leveraging AI/ML insights to optimize: CI/CD pipelines, Deployment strategies, Infrastructure performance, and cost.
• Building and maintaining self-healing systems using AI-based observability platforms.
• Supporting our initiatives for modernizing/centralizing our cloud footprint in partnership with business, analytics, software, InfoSec, and data science teams.
• Designing and enforcing SDLC & Infosec & Compliance requirements.
• Assisting with root cause analysis/remediation for system incidents.
• Providing support to the engineering team in basic database operations (Postgres, SQL Server) in running SQL scripts, creating database objects, and troubleshooting performance and connection issues.
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Providing 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, and on-call support as part of the DevOps team.

Skills

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software or System Engineering preferred or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Expertise with cloud-based systems and containerized infrastructure (Linux/OS fundamentals, Kubernetes, Database systems, Cloud networking).
• Deep expertise with GCP required, with significant expertise with two+ (GCP and Azure) preferred.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms and experience integrating AI-powered DevOps tools.
• Familiarity with LLM-based systems, vector databases, or AI APIs.
• Expertise building common Web/Internet platform components (e.g. proxies, caches, load balancers, firewalls, app/web server tiers, DB systems).
• Unix scripting experience required and a willingness to learn/support those you may not presently know.
• Conceptual and practical knowledge with modern DevOps techniques, such as CI/CD, IaC, Configuration Management, Secrets/Vault management.
• Expertise in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and applications in a distributed/microservice environment.
• Experience with databases like Postgres and SQL Server.
• Exposure to Azure technologies like ADF, ADF Linked Services, Azure Key Vault, Azure managed identities, and Azure DevOps.
• Proven experience working with US-based business teams.
• Excellent written and communication skills in English language.
• Ability to work within core US business hours/time zone expectations - Eastern Standard Time (EST) overlap.
• Workspace: A quiet space to work, an internet connection of at least 30 Mbps download | 10 Mbps upload.

Benefits

The Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer will enjoy the following benefits:

• Medical insurance.
• Accident insurance.
• Retirement benefits.
• 12 company-paid holidays.
• 2 flexible holidays.
• Privilege/earned leave.
• Casual/sick leave.
• Paid maternity and paternity leaves.
• Weekly wellness events.

Company Overview

Porch Group is a vertical software platform for residential environments. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.porchgroup.com.

Remote Work Opportunity

This role is open to candidates in the USA and can be performed remotely. The ideal candidate will have a quiet workspace and a reliable internet connection.