About CLARA:

Clara Analytics’ mission is to give insurance claims managers the power to improve outcomes dramatically, save millions of dollars, and help thousands of people recover from injuries, recoup damages, and get back on their feet faster after suffering a loss. The opportunities to develop high-value AI and machine learning applications in the insurance industry are nearly unbounded – the sector has only just begun to realize the benefits of adopting these technologies. We are looking for high performers with an entrepreneurial spirit who welcome the challenges and opportunities of thinking big in uncharted territory and are driven to solve challenging problems and develop cutting-edge applications that have a significant impact.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior DevSecOps or Infrastructure Engineer to automate and expand, improve, and secure our AWS datacenter operations. The ideal candidate has practical experience with security best practices. You will develop tools to manage and automate the deployment and security of our production applications and environments. Ideally you care deeply about things working the way they should and are passionate about operating at scale

Responsibilities:

• Securely design, implement, and deploy AWS production and staging VPCs

• Manage , maintain, and deploy runtime AMIs built on Ubuntu LTS, Nginx, PHP, Node.js

• Manage, maintain, and deploy databases running on MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

• Manage and improve deployments across multiple development teams

• Work with our engineers to achieve and maintain various compliance regulations (PCI, HIPAA, ISO, SOC 2, HiTrust….)

• Vulnerability and attack surface detection/minimization/hardening

• Implement security patch management automation

• Implement monitoring to ensure reliability and performance meets or exceeds business goals

• Work closely with engineers to assist in the reproduction and resolution of defects

• Work closely with development teams and take their applications from design to full production in the AWS environment and ensure their ongoing support once there.

• Gain a deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design.

• Be a DevSecOps/Infrastructure champion – work closely with other internal teams to build security, reliability, and scalability into the development lifecycle.

• Dive deep into the software stack to troubleshoot as needed.

• Build engineering automation, monitoring and productivity tools to streamline and scale application and monitoring in the production environment

• Ensure CLARA has a robust and functional backup, continuity of operations, and disaster recovery tooling and processes.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment, and operations.

• Work with a team of peers who are smart, professional, pull their own weight, and share a passion for what they’re creating.

Technologies:

• AWS : EC2, ELB/ALB, Cloudformation, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, WAF, Kinesis Firehose/Streams, SQS, EMR, CodeStar, Data Pipeline, Step Functions, RedShift CloudFront.

• RDS, DynamoDB

• Microservices

• Docker

• Elastic caching (Redis, Memcached)

• Jenkins CI/CD, Declarative Pipelines

• NodeJS, Python, Rails

• NewRelic

• Packer

• Github

• JIRA & Confluence

• Artifactory

• Vault

• Inspec

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in a DevSecOps role

• 2+ years experience working with AWS

• Experience with PCI, HIPAA, or SOC 2 audit and maintenance

• Understanding of deployment tools such as AWS CodeDeploy, Chef, Jenkins, Git, Vagrant, etc.

• Ability to work closely with other engineers, product managers and customer support

• Bonus: Understanding of web development technologies including PHP 5, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Angular

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

• 5+ years of Unix/Linux administration and release management

• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity and security best practices

• Very strong Infrastructure as Code and automation skills

• Solid experience and background working with AWS services

• Proficiency with the AWS CLI

• Solid experience with Cloudformation or other IaC and deployment tools

• Very familiar with Jenkins CI and creating jobs

• Fluent with git at the command line

• A solid Ops foundation – you’re always thinking “What happens if this fails ” when you build things

• Experience working in an iterative based development environment using Agile/SCRUM or Kanban

• Familiarity with build & release automation tools and methodologies
  Self-starter with ability to lead processes and projects

• Good technical knowledge of network hardware, protocols, and standards