[Remote] Cloud DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Planet Group is hiring a Cloud DevOps Engineer to support a national insurance technology platform. The role focuses on building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment environments for critical insurance applications while partnering with Software Engineering, Data, and Security to ensure scalability, security, and availability.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting core insurance technology platforms
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and releases
- Manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
- Own Docker and Kubernetes environments in production
- Partner with Software Engineering to improve deployment velocity, scalability, and reliability
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across the stack
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation for production issues
- Automate repetitive operational workflows to reduce manual toil
- Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity initiatives
- Partner with Security on access controls, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
- Maintain clear technical documentation for infrastructure and operational procedures
- Evaluate and introduce new DevOps tools and practices to improve engineering productivity
Skills
- Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm EST (must be able to work core EST hours)
- Location: Fully remote, •must reside in one of the following states — AZ, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, MA, ME, MI, MT, NC, OH, UT, or WY •
- • 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
- • Strong hands-on experience with AWS or Azure
- • Proven track record building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar)
- • Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)
- • Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience
- • Solid scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
- • Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch, Grafana, or similar)
- • Working knowledge of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, certificates, and APIs
- • Understanding of IAM, secrets management, and secure development practices
- • Strong cross-functional troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, apps, and integrations
- • Comfort operating in a production environment with real reliability and on-call ownership
- • Experience in regulated, highly available, or financial-services environments
- • Property & Casualty, homeowners insurance, MGA, or InsurTech background
- • Experience supporting quoting, policy administration, billing, or claims systems
- • Advanced AWS-native or Azure cloud services experience
- • DevSecOps tooling exposure
- • Experience designing or supporting disaster recovery / business continuity solutions
- • Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
- 12–15% target bonus upon conversion
- Fully remote
- Contract-to-Hire
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