Engineering Manager - Cloud

Engineering Manager - Cloud
Bold Penguin is a leading integrated digital solution platform dedicated to simplifying small commercial insurance. Our technology makes the quote and bind process quick, effortless, and profitable for all parties - agents, brokers, and carriers. Bold Penguin's innovative product suite has digitized and transformed a slow, manual process resulting in reduced costs, increased efficiency, and better overall outcomes. For more information, please visit www.boldpenguin.com.
Or, simply put....
We simplify commercial insurance.
Flexible Workplace
This role is a flex office/home role and comes with the expectation you will engage onsite a certain number of working days per month, in our brand-new office located in Dublin, Ohio, with your Bold Penguin colleagues and customers. On-site workdays will be managed at the team level to maintain an environment focused on work-life balance, innovation velocity, and the delivery of exceptional customer experiences.
In this role, you will be expected to work 40% of working days per month (8 days per month on average) in the office. This is a minimum expectation. All employees are welcome to work in the office as much as they like. Applicants must be local (within 35 miles) to Dublin, Ohio.
YOUR ROLE
Engineering Managers work as part of a cross-functional product team to build & launch products that remove the friction from commercial insurance. You'll lead and manage a team of first class Cloud Engineers/SREs that will rely on you to ensure their decisions and work have the full support of the company. Your users will be commercial insurance agents and insurance carriers who will use your work every day to efficiently provide commercial insurance for small business owners.
WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Direct the work of a group of Cloud engineers/SREs to ensure best practices and healthy cultural norms around cloud infrastructure and reliability engineering.
• Be a hands-on leader who can write & test CloudFormation templates, review infrastructure configurations, and direct the technical activities for 4-10 other engineers.
• Lead and participate in code and architecture reviews.
• Ensure that teams are staffed to meet objectives; actively participate in the recruiting and onboarding of new software engineers to meet growing demands.
• Embody best practices and good work habits; mentor team members on engineering concepts such as infrastructure as code, automated deployments, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Coordinate complex technical activities, define high-level milestones, and track progress towards objectives in conjunction with Product Managers.
• Mentor Tech Leads on your team and participate in the design and development of complex cloud infrastructure, through all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle.
• Facilitate lunch and learns, cross-training, and professional development.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years' relevant work experience
• 3+ years' experience in management
• A focus on details and organization.
• Firm grasp of DevOps, Agile, Infrastructure as Code, Automated Deployments, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Docker, and AWS.
• A strong desire to promote a healthy working environment.
• The ability to straddle both high level milestones and low level technical details.
• Previous experience working in the insurance industry, especially commercial insurance.
• Previous experience working in high-growth tech startup companies.
• Proficiency in all things AWS.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Must be able to sit/stand/walk for prolonged periods of time, (up to 8 hours per day) at a desk working on a computer.
• Must be able to use standard office equipment for extended periods of time, including but not limited to, a mouse, keyboard, phone and video conferencing.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to access and navigate the corporate office.

BENEFITS
We offer competitive compensation and progressive benefits that include:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Disability and Life Benefits
• 401K with a company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off

Stay connected to the Glacier. We have great SLACK channels for work and play. We also like to video conference regularly and hold all - hands "Waddles" regularly.
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The national salary range for this role is $146,157 to $201,600. The expected starting salary range for this role at Bold Penguin is $160,000 to $194,000.
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