DevOps Engineer, Convr
$70-90k
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Underwriting & document automation platform
Be an early applicant
Underwriting & document automation platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$70-90k
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make life-changing impact on the people behind the business.
Role
Who you are
- Must be a self-learner and able to work independently without supervision & able to deliver on time under tight deadlines
- A love of infrastructure-as-code
- A love of terminal programming and not reliant on user-interfaces
- Good hands-on experience in programming knowledge (Python or Shell script) to automate repeated tasks
- Good analytical & debugging skills - able to differentiate the infrastructure vs Application related issues
- Hands on experience with build and deployment automation
- Ability to clearly document and communicate architectural concepts at multiple levels
- Hands on experience with infrastructure monitoring tools
- A desire to learn something new every day
- Experience in DevOps or SRE roles. We're looking for individuals who have actively contributed to these areas
- Proficiency with AWS cloud technologies, particularly using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) for engineering and provisioning. You'll be building environments and deploying applications to services like ECS, AMIs, EC2, S3, and Elastic Load Balancing
- A track record of conducting system tests, monitoring performance, and resolving issues
- Practical experience developing solutions using relevant technologies such as: AWS with Terraform (infrastructure-as-code), YAML, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitLab CI/CD Pipeline deployments
- A knack for creating scripts to automate operational tasks and integrating them into infrastructure
- Familiarity with standard IT service management processes like change, incident, and problem management
- Availability to participate in an on-call rotation for troubleshooting RHEL, AWS, containers, and web services
- Ability to navigate effectively between automation efforts and daily operational tasks
- Nice to have: Knowledge of Datadog, Jenkins, and Python
What the job involves
- Join us as a DevOps Engineer and help us deliver the best solutions to our customers
- You'll collaborate with agile teams and technical leadership to improve our development and deployment pipelines, reducing friction for engineers
- You'll also work to make data more accessible throughout the organization and implement best practices for our growing SAAS platform
- We're currently investing heavily in new architectural components to build the next generation of our platform
- This role offers a chance to join a critical juncture and directly influence its design and future
- We believe in continuous learning, and you'll have ample opportunities to learn new technologies while leveraging your experience to guide our technical decisions
- Our DevOps team has successfully automated many processes and stabilized the platform, ensuring a strong work-life balance that allows us to focus on innovation and research
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
- Automate application build and infrastructure deployment pipelines
- Deploy new systems with best security practices
- Utilize bench marking and other tools to optimize for performance and cost
- Identify and improve on possible points of failure in our infrastructure and applications
- Troubleshoot incidents as they arise and conduct post-mortems
- Ensure high quality monitoring coverage of deployed elements
- Provide technical guidance on solid DevOps practices
- Develop self-service processes and tools for development teams
- Collaborate with development teams to utilize container best practices
Our take
With the complexity of compliance regulations increasing and new obstacles constantly appearing for businesses, making informed risk decisions has become more difficult. To help underwriters do just this, Convr supplies tools to help them navigate the continuously changing nature of financial risk and correctly evaluate opportunity and risk.
Features include analysis for third-party business data, automated assessment of financial documents, and AI-driven answering of underwriting questions. Together, these tools can be used to efficiently and effectively evaluate the risk associated with underwriting for a business.
Convr's rather niche focus in the way it applies AI and automation should help it stand out as these type of solutions become more prevalent across sectors and applications. The company is well-funded, and we expect it will continue investing in R&D and the broadening of its operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2019
$15.2m
SERIES B
Sep 2017
$2.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $17.7m
Company benefits
- Hybrid/remote work opportunities
- Flexible paid time off
- Flexible work hours
- Company-paid holidays
- Insurance coverage day one
- 401(k) and stock options
- 401(k) financial advice
- Employee peer reward program
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Paid parental leave
Company HQ
Schaumburg Township, Schaumburg, IL
Leadership
Harish Neelamana
(Founder & President)Started their career as a Consultant at Pentafour and EY, before working in Management at Capgemini and Allstate Insurance Company. They then spent a combined 9 years at BCG and Zurich before founding Convr.
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