Senior Cloud Engineer

Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America.

We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets. As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents. Our multi-brand and omni-channel approach include our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands. 

Independence Pet Group (IPG), a subsidiary of IPH, is one of North America’s largest pet insurance and services organizations. Our impressive family of brands (Figo, Felix, ASPCA Pet Health Insurance, Pets Plus Us, and AKC Pet Insurance) supports insurance for more than 1,000,000 pets in the U.S. and Canada and provides well-being, safety, resources, and business solutions to the pet industry, including microchip identification and an online pet registry. 

Job Summary: The Senior Cloud Engineer architects, designs, deploys, and manages cloud-based solutions to meet the organization’s technical requirements.

• Uses Cloud Service Provider(s) to deploy available, scalable, performant, and secure applications.
• Develops automated methodologies and workflows for deployment activities, configuration management, supporting systems, and business processes.
• Governance of cloud infrastructure, including both technical controls and cost optimization structures.
• Designs and builds algorithms to help detect anomalies and trend changes in production systems.
• Monitors, optimizes, and troubleshoots software infrastructure.
• Optimizes cloud spending by monitoring resource usage and recommends solutions.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including developers, project, and technical stakeholders, to ensure cloud and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) implementations meet business needs.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Level Specific Criteria

• Leads the design and implementation of complex cloud solutions that span multiple teams and systems

• Develops and maintains cloud strategies and roadmaps that align with business goals and objectives

• Evaluates new cloud, automation technologies, tools, and makes recommendations for adoption

• Automates and streamlines software delivery processes to cloud and container platforms

• Implements advanced integration and CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies to the cloud

• Develops and implements metrics and analytics to measure the efficiency, effectiveness, and optimization of cloud solutions

• Mentors and provides guidance to junior team members, promotes best practices, and maintains quality standards

• Acts as a subject matter expert in automation and provides guidance to other teams within the organization

Accountability/Complexity

• May manage projects requiring the responsibility of delegating work and reviewing resulting work product.

• May be responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

• May function as a team lead and assistant to the supervisor/manager.

Experience

• 6 > years relevant experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

  (One-year relevant experience is equivalent to one-

  year college)

• Associate's degree in a technical field

• Certification in relevant focus area

Location Requirement: Remote (US) - excluding the following states: MA, CA, WA, HI, AK, CO, CT, MT, NY, NJ

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All of our jobs come with great benefits including healthcare, parental leave and opportunities for career advancements. Some offerings are dependent upon the location of where you work and can include the following:

• Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance
• Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability
• 12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Retirement savings plan
• Personal Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off
• Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
• Pet friendly office environment
• Commuter Benefits
• Group Pet Insurance
• On the job training and skills development
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)