Software Engineer II (DevOps/Site Reliability)

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$117,200.00 - $193,400.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Software Engineer II with experience with Devops or Site Reliability Engineering to join our organization as we grow and transform our Technology landscape. The ideal candidate will leverage their understanding of both cloud technologies (AWS) and on-prem infrastructure and pipelines to help develop, innovate, automate, and execute cloud migration strategies. A critical function of this role is also to help bolster our ability to properly operate, observe, and mature the reliability and performance of our applications in the cloud.

What Will You Do?

• In this role, the candidate will leverage their expertise in both cloud technologies, particularly AWS, and on-premises infrastructure to develop, innovate, and automate cloud migration strategies. They will be responsible for executing these strategies to ensure a seamless transition of our applications and services to the cloud.
• Enhance our operational capabilities by implementing robust monitoring and observability solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for automation and optimization, ensuring that our cloud infrastructure is scalable, secure, and efficient.
• Contribute to the maturation of our cloud operations, enabling us to deliver high-quality services to our customers.
• Work independently to tackle well-scoped and loosely scoped problems.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced employees.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Four years of programming/development experience preferred.
• Experience with DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering a plus.
• Experience with Cloud Engineering (AWS preferred with emphasis on Node.js Lambdas, AWS Gateway, S3) a plus.
• Experience with shell/bash scripting, Linux and/or building/deploying applications using CI tools or Pipelines.
• Experience with application performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace/App D/ Grafana/Influx stack or ELK stack.
• Experience developing, operating, and tuning systems with high-availability and high-throughput.
• General understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Experience with one or more programming languages is a plus.
• Experience with cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform is a plus.
• Experience with 1 or more of Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Desire to solve problems by developing a hypothesis. Set out to prove, or disprove, your hypothesis through experiments and perseverance.
• Desire to be mentored and to mentor other team members.
• Desire to continuously learn and grow in your career.
• Delivery - Intermediate delivery skills including the ability to estimate accurate timelines for tasks and deliver work at a steady, predictable pace to achieve commitments, contribute to the software design strategy and methodologies used to best meet the system requirements, consider and build for many different use cases, avoid over engineering, and ensure automation, deliver complete solutions but release them in small batches, and identify important tradeoffs and negot