Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cytora, now part of Applied Systems, is transforming how insurers and brokers connect through their AI-powered platform. The Senior Platform Engineer will help build the Underwriting Productivity Suite, focusing on infrastructure, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines to enhance efficiency for underwriters.

Responsibilities

• Helping to build Cytora’s Underwriting Productivity Suite, a serverless based web application that increases the efficiency and effectiveness of underwriters thereby reducing expense ratios and delivering profitable growth to our customers
• Joining the platform team, which is responsible for the infrastructure of our application, our monitoring systems and our CI/CD pipelines
• Managing infrastructure as code, using terraform
• Using third party systems such as circleci, datadog, auth0, thoughspot
• Scaling infrastructure and delivering quickly based on the level of complexity needed
• Providing feedback to product managers and the wider company
• Contributing to roadmaps
• Suggesting features and improvements based on technical understanding

Skills

• We are looking for someone who is customer-centric, values-driven, and collaborative with great communication skills
• Strong proven experience in serverless: Lambda/SQS/SNS/S3/Aurora Serverless/GCP Vertex AI/GCP BigQuery
• Strong experience using a range of AWS services but not limited to: RDS Aurora Postgres, APIGW, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SES, Cloudfront, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager
• Experience building and maintaining multi-region deployments
• Terraform/Terragrunt experience as this is part of our stack with Single Tenant deployments
• Experience using an OOP language, we use Python
• Experience using Terraform
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VPC configuration and security
• ECS and Fargate are a plus
• Experience designing both single tenancy and multi tenancy solutions
• Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS
• Maintaining CI/CD pipelines (we use CircleCI)
• Monitoring, we use Datadog logs, APMs, profiling, App security
• Prior experience using GCP is a plus, but not essential
• Awareness of GDPR compliant systems
• Experience building event-driven, serverless applications
• Cloudflare/Orca/Vanta

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working and remote options
• Professional development budget & conference access
• Annual company retreats
• A mission-driven culture that puts people first
• Depending on the role, team members may also be eligible to participate in additional compensation plans such as bonus and commission.

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