The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will drive reliability scalability and performance of production services influence system design and lead incident management. They will establish SLOs and error budgets foster a blameless culture and operate across AWS and hybrid environments.

$160000 - $180000 / year + Bonus
Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business boost their productivity and efficiencies and lower costs while strengthening relationships.
Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation technology partnerships and focusing on customer success.
Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create think and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.
We are headquartered in Denver Colorado with offices across the U.S. Canada and India.
We are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to define the strategic vision and own the enterprise-wide reliability scalability and performance of our critical production services. As a foundational pillar of our engineering organization this role drives architectural standards for the full-service lifecycle-from initial design and deployment readiness to proactive production operations. At Vertafore we view reliability as a core engineering responsibility. You will operate autonomously across AWS hybrid data centers and customer-hosted environments setting the technical direction for how we treat operations as a software engineering challenge. This role is pivotal in transitioning cross-departmental teams toward a highly proactive engineering-first culture.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Reliability Architecture

• Enterprise-Wide Ownership: Define the standards for end-to-end service ownership holding the organization accountable for availability performance and overall operational health.

• Architectural Influence: Lead cross-departmental initiatives to influence system design at the architectural level driving fault tolerance strict compliance and operational sustainability across public and private clouds.

• Advanced Observability Vision: Dictate the enterprise strategy for observability frameworks ensuring the Four Golden Signals (Latency Traffic Errors and Saturation) provide actionable predictive insights across all platforms.

Strategic Leadership & Reliability Architecture

• Enterprise-Wide Ownership: Define the standards for end-to-end service ownership holding the organization accountable for availability performance and overall operational health.

• Architectural Influence: Lead cross-departmental initiatives to influence system design at the architectural level driving fault tolerance strict compliance and operational sustainability across public and private clouds.

• Advanced Observability Vision: Dictate the enterprise strategy for observability frameworks ensuring the Four Golden Signals (Latency Traffic Errors and Saturation) provide actionable predictive insights across all platforms.

Data-Driven Reliability Governance

• SLO & Error Budget Authority: Establish the governance models for defining and managing SLIs and SLOs across multiple product lines.

• Delivery Alignment: Champion Error Budgets as the ultimate technical arbiter at the executive level balancing feature velocity with the absolute requirement for platform stability.

Incident Management & Cultural Transformation

• Enterprise Incident Command: Lead incident response for the most critical high-severity events.

• Blameless Culture Champion: Foster a "Win Together" environment by championing a Blameless Postmortem culture globally ensuring root cause analyses focus strictly on systemic and process improvements rather than individual error.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: 12 to 15+ years of hands-on Cloud Operations SRE or reliability-focused engineering experience with a proven track record of end-to-end enterprise service ownership.

• Proven Scope: Demonstrated ability to operate at a Principal/Architect scope driving large-scale reliability outcomes and operational excellence across global organizations.

• Software Engineering: Expert-level software engineering skills in C# .NET Java Python or React.

• Principles: Deep expertise in scaling core SRE principles (SLIs SLOs error budgets) across complex distributed systems.

• Technical Stack: Mastery of AWS Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure-as-Code and extensive knowledge of Linux and Windows environments and relational databases.

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• Commitment: Participation in an executive on-call rotation with flexible hours as required

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
• A fast learner.• A problem solver.• Ability to document procedures.• Able to meet deadlines.• Good communication skills. Able to deliver the message effectively to a technical and non-technical audience.• Able to comply with processes and procedures.• Able to maintain professional composure in any situations.• Flexible in working extended hours on occasions or as required.• Exposure in the insurance industry is desired but not mandatory.• Driven to improve personally and professionally• Operate best in a fast-paced flexible work environment with ability to work in a team.
Additional Requirements and Details:
• High speed internet to accommodate working from home needs.• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer etc.).• Frequent sitting and/or standing.
THE VERTAFORE STORY
Over the past 50 years Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today we're proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster reduce costs and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics delivering actionable insight- right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
The Vertafore Way
Insurance is about relationships and technology should make those relationships stronger. That's why at Vertafore it's our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers becoming better every day and delivering results you can see we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.• Win Together: We work together as one team showing empathy and respect along the way.• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.• Say It Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.
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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings .
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities duties skill or working conditions. In addition this document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race color religion sex gender identity pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship age marital status physical disability mental disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you'd like while using our offices as a place for collaboration community and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *Canada Only

• The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
• Medical vision & dental plans
• Life AD&D
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Pension Plan & Employer Match
• Maternity Paternity and Parental Leave
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Education Assistance
• Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition

Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only

• The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
• We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration community and team-building with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times our teams work from home or a similar environment.
• Medical vision & dental plans
  • PPO & high-deductible options
• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
  • Health Care FSA
  • Dental & Vision FSA
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • Commuter FSA
• Life AD&D (Basic & Supplemental) and Disability
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plain & Employer Match
• Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance Hospital Indemnity and Accident Insurance
• Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Education & Legal Assistance
• Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement Employee Referral Internal Recognition and Wellness
• Commuter Benefits (Denver)

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities duties skill or working conditions. In addition this document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race color religion sex gender identity pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship age marital status physical disability mental disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date good standing in the company and actives status at time of payout.
The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date good standing in the company and actives status at time of payout.
Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
We do not accept resumes from agencies headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
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