Senior Cloud Enablement Engineer [Remote-US]

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com   Our Team   From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we’re a world class team of tech-minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world.  We’ve come together to create the context-based insurance solutions and experiences of the future.  We know that the key to our success isn't just about nailing the technology—it’s hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.

The role

Quanata is seeking a Senior Cloud Enablement Engineer to join us in providing a suite of solutions centered by AWS services that enable our product development and engineering organization to create, and deliver Quanata’s technical offerings. Our team focuses on enabling software engineers to reliably and rapidly deliver software, and manage the company’s cloud infrastructure standards, while empowering developers to build for their needs.

Your day-to-day

1. Implement AWS cloud standards for infrastructure, networking, and software components, optimizing for security, speed, and cost-efficiency.
2. Evaluate new technologies to stay ahead of the needs of the business.
3. Collaborate with development teams to ensure their applications are optimized for deployment in an IaC environment, and meet security and compliance requirements.
4. Develop and maintain automation and deployment processes to enable and improve developer experience and efficiency.
5. Develop pattern libraries for IaC to enable developers to “plug-and-play” to build out their own environments
6. Implement monitoring and logging solutions to allow development teams to assure their platform is  performing at its best.
7. Encourage developer autonomy and self-service by contributing to developer training and documentation for Platform products.
8. Promote a supportive culture focused on building reliable systems and processes based on established best practices in the industry.
9. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in AWS, including security, performance and scalability issues.
10. Implement security and compliance measures to ensure the AWS services meets regulatory requirements. 
11. Participate in on-call rotation to provide support for internal developer services.

About you

• Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or equivalent relevant professional experience and;
• 6-8 years of experience in AWS Cloud Services or developer experience tooling to include:
• Five or more years of experience working with specific AWS technologies including PaaS specific offerings.
• Three or more years of experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience and understanding of CI/CD processes and commercial tooling such as GitLab and Github.
• Experience and understanding of Go, Python, or Bash languages
• Experience and understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience enabling and troubleshooting containerized workloads in ECS, Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
• Experience engaging with users of developer platforms to ascertain needs and opportunities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to contribute during code reviews, and capture tasks.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail.
• At least one associate-level AWS certification (or willingness to provide proof of certification within 6 months of employment).

Bonus Points

• Working with serverless technologies within AWS or GCP
• Experience with Multi-Region deployments within AWS or GCP
• Prior involvement in running developer surveys or gathering feedback to guide DevEx improvements.

Salary: $195,000 to $280,000*

*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal s