About Us
Colonial Surety Company is an insurance company licensed for business in every state, listed by the U.S. Treasury as an approved surety, and rated “A Excellent” by A.M. Best Company. Our distinct, digital product platform has recently expanded to include important liability coverages for small and mid-size businesses.
Founded in 1930, we use our experience—plus technology—to give busy people and businesses easy, affordable and digital access to a growing portfolio of bond and insurance products. We have an ambituous vision for impact and growth—and invite a diversity of motivated achievers to come, learn, work, create, grow—and succeed—with Colonial.
Position Summary
Our DevOps Engineer will advance high functioning systems that continuously improve customer experience as we pursue ambituous growth. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that enhance the customer experience. Through attention to collaboration across the business, the DevOps Engineer will ensure that developers understand stakeholder needs, identify technical problems and execute solutions and participate in project management decisions to drive success.
Job Functions, Essential Duties, And Responsibilities
- Design and implement continuous integration and deployment platform.
- Productionize local environments into cloud-scale availability
- Optimize our automated infrastructure.
- Systematically improve our testing and deployment pipelines and respond to emergent issues.
- Create a monitoring process for system health, ensuring service uptime and automated incident response.
- Build a support operating model to enable our rapidly growing customer base
- Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Sciences and Information Technologies.
- 5+ years of progressive, related work experience and a commitment to quality design and clean code.
- Full-stack development mindset, comfortable working in any part of the stack and learning on the job ( Current stack: AWS, Window server, Linux, Docker, Java, Ruby, PHP, Angular)
- Passion for Window Servers, Linux, AWS, and open source,
- Ability to take a functioning application running in a local environment and work with product leads to productionize in Cloud environment.
- Experience designing, documenting, and deploying development pipelines that maximize engineer’s ability to quickly and safely build features
- Desire to set and meet aggressive goals and ability to work in a fast paced environment with a risk management mindset
- Stellar organizational, analytic and communication skills, and the ability to methodically solve problems across teams.
- An energetic, agile-minded, optimistic, pragmatic and collegial team-player.
- Excellent at English reading comprehension (MUST)
- Excellent at English communication
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Sciences or Information Technologies
- 5+ years of progressive, related work experience
- Experience designing, documenting, and deploying CI/CD and development pipelines
- Ability to productionize a local application into a cloud environment
- Proficiency with AWS
- Experience with Windows Server and Linux administration
- Experience with Docker and container-based deployments
- Full-stack development mindset; familiarity with Java, Ruby, PHP, and Angular
- Strong organizational, analytic, and communication skills
- Excellent English reading comprehension and communication (MUST)
What We Do
Colonial Surety Company is a direct insurance company focusing on business liability insurance. We offer everything a business owner needs, from their license bond, ERISA fidelity bond, and complete circle liability protection, including cyber, harassment (EPLI), professional liability insurance, and so much more. Want to Partner? We have free Partnership Accounts® for Attorneys needing court and fiduciary bonds for their clients, Pension Professionals needing ERISA fidelity bonds for their clients, and even Insurance Agents who want to move their clients along with niche policies. Just visit us and sign up for a free dashboard today and start letting us help you run your business or increase your client base. 1. Quick Digital Process We offer a streamlined purchase process that allows you to purchase bonds and insurance online instantly. 2. Direct Insurer Get the convenience and cost savings of purchasing coverage straight from the source in all 50 U.S. states and territories. 3. Innovative Products We’re the only company to offer cost-effective surety, fidelity bonds and instant insurance products, i-bonds® and i-insurance®, for you to obtain at the click of a button. 4. Deep Expertise Our customer service reps and support attorneys have decades of experience in bonding and insurance. 5. Trustworthy Established in 1930, we’re rated "A" Excellent by AM Best Company, Treasury listed in all 50 states and U.S. territories, and approved by the Department of Labor, so you can count on compliance. 6. Partnership Focused We offer powerful client management tools and programs from our business partners
