Staff Site Reliability Engineer

*WHO WE ARE: *
Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.

*WHO WE ARE: *
Zinnia is simplifying how people buy, sell, and administer insurance products. Combining intuitive enterprise technology solutions and data insights with the streamlined, consumer-facing Policygenius marketplace, Zinnia is redesigning the insurance experience for shoppers, advisors, and insurers alike — and enabling more people to protect their financial futures along the way. Zinnia has over $173.7 billion in assets under administration across 60+ carrier clients, 350 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.

*WHO YOU ARE: *
As a Staff SRE Engineer at Zinnia, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and systems that support our applications and services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our platform is scalable, reliable, and efficient. Your expertise will be crucial in driving the automation and optimization of our infrastructure.

*WHAT YOU'LL DO *
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• Participate in the design and development of enterprise platform solutions that aims at providing consistent and secure methods for developers to develop, build, deploy and run their applications.
• Support developers from other teams by providing DevSecOps best practices.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Monitor system performance, identify issues, and implement improvements to enhance reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure platform stability and security.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and Spacelift.
• Ensure proper documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes, and policies.
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for production systems.
• Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices to continuously improve the platform

*WHAT YOU'LL NEED: *

• 10+ years of SRE experience, DevOps Engineer, platform engineering or similar role.
• Experience in developing and managing infrastructure as code using Terraform. Experience with Spacelift is a plus.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Bash, JavaScript/Typescript, Java, C# or Go.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Experience with DevSecOps tasks (Environment provisioning, CI/CD Pipelines, implementing security tools for DAST and SAST monitoring).
• Excellent work ethic. Ability to work and travel independently. Effective strategic thinking skills.
• Expert level communication, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills. Expert level troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Extensive experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Stay up to date with the latest trends and technologies when it comes to infrastructure as code.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
We're looking for the best and brightest innovators in the industry to join our team. At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.