Principal Devops Engineer

Overview

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. Sage Sure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Principal Devops Engineer to join our dynamic Platform Engineering team. This team is dedicated to designing, building, and maintaining essential platform tools and frameworks that empower engineering teams with self-service, scalable, and efficient solutions.

You’ll play a key role in modernizing our software delivery processes and ensuring they meet the evolving needs of our engineering organization. By collaborating closely with engineering teams, you’ll help create a culture of Dev Ops, minimizing friction and optimizing feedback loops to ensure high-quality, fast, and autonomous software delivery.

• Drive the development and continuous improvement of platform tools, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and monitoring capabilities to effectively support engineering teams.
• Design and implement self-service tools and frameworks that empower engineering teams, promoting scalability, efficiency, and reusability across various platforms.
• Provide expert-level technical oversight and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring platform capabilities are seamlessly integrated into workflows and aligned with organizational goals.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive technical documentation and engineering standards, ensuring platform tools remain understandable, extensible, and accessible to all teams.
• Analyze and resolve complex performance issues within platform tools, identifying root causes, and implementing robust, scalable solutions to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Proactively research and adopt new technologies, tools, and engineering patterns that elevate developer productivity and improve self-service capabilities.
• Focus extensively on scalability, performance optimization, and sustainable software delivery, ensuring efficient resource utilization and cost effectiveness.
• Actively participate in on-call rotations, providing critical expertise and technical guidance to maintain production environment resilience and high availability.

• 8+ years of experience building, scaling, and implementing Dev Ops solutions, with deep expertise in automation and tooling.
• Ability to develop and document reusable, scalable solutions that enable engineering teams to operate efficiently.
• Demonstrated expertise in automation practices, leveraging best practices and methodologies to streamline workflows and seamlessly integrate tooling into engineering processes.
• A platform-focused mindset, capable of developing, documenting, and promoting reusable patterns that significantly enhance engineering productivity.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes or similar container orchestration frameworks, along with experience using ecosystem tools such as Helm, Docker, Argo Rollouts, and Ingress NGINX, to build resilient and scalable solutions.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodologies and tools (e.g., Git Lab CI, Blue/Green and Canary deployments, API testing), emphasizing modular, scalable, and efficient pipeline design.
• Proficient in automated scripting, including designing, coding, debugging, and maintaining scripts in Python, Bash, or Go, and capable of setting scripting standards and best practices.
• Experience developing solutions on cloud platforms, particularly AWS, with comprehensive knowledge of cloud-native architecture and best practices.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability best practices, including the ability to design solutions that deliver actionable insights into distributed systems.

• Software development experience, particularly working with APIs in Java or Python or Go, with an ability to guide teams in building and maintaining high-quality integrations.
• Advanced understanding of Linux systems and container runtimes, including the ability to architect solutions that leverage these systems for scalability and reliability.
• Experience in the insurance and/or financial industry sectors, including an understanding of…