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Looking to start your career in Technology? We have opportunities right here in mid-Michigan! Vertafore is looking for talented people to join our team in Michigan. Our dynamic environment provides professional development, fast upward mobility, and exposure to the latest and greatest in technology.

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships. Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success. Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., including East Lansing, Michigan – we are minutes from Michigan State University, Lansing Community College, and Cooley Law School !

Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Dev/Ops teams are tightly coupled and integrated with the culture, tools, practices, and patterns of the rest of our software engineering organization. They not only “keep the lights on” for our systems and networks, but also empower our other development teams with cutting edge tools and capabilities to bring Vertafore products to market as quickly as possible. We aspire to and maintain a very strong focus on the "Development" side of Dev/Ops practices, while applying and maintaining quality Operational delivery for our customers and development teams.

Core Responsibilities:

• Support large-scale web applications in a cloud environment.

• Develop a strong automation practice to drive efficiencies in infrastructure, Dev/Ops and application deployments.

• Provide support in upgrading Dev/Ops infrastructure for existing products and greenfield development.

• Coordinate with software development teams in developing and implementing software applications.

• Assist Managers in analyzing project requirements and project design.

• Collaborate with peer organizations to deliver software applications.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Eager to dive in and learn, with a willingness to be coached.

• Follow industry trends and the open-source community.

• Enjoy solving problems as part of a team.

• Have a strong sense of ownership.

• Strong diagnostic and analytical skills.

• Care about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code and infrastructure.

• Curious and avid learner.

• Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions.

• Inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them.

• Love to collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions.

• Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment.

• Work independently and as part of a team working towards simultaneous parallel or independent objectives.

Core Requirements:

• Experience working in a Dev/Ops, software development, or closely related role preferred.

• Experience with Linux server operating systems preferred.

• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash).

• Knowledge of cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Knowledge of infrastructure provisioning tools (e.g., Terraform or similar).

• Knowledge of a configuration management tool (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Puppet or similar).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Bamboo, Jenkins, GitLab, TFS, etc.).

• Knowledge of containerization and application servers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, WebLogic, Tomcat, etc.).

Additional Requirements and Details:

+ Travel required up to 5% of the time

+ Located and working from an office location when required

+ Ability to work remote with a stable internet connection on an as needed basis

+ Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.

+ Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

+ Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

+ Frequent sitting and/or standing.

+ #LI-Hybrid

+ $63,000 / year