Cloud Infra Engineer

Summary

Guidewire is searching for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with experience designing, architecting, building, and maintaining the infrastructure surrounding a suite of geospatial data microservices. As an Infra Engineer, you will be responsible for the engineering behind our NextGen HazardHub microservices ecosystem, the most comprehensive set of property risk data, casualty risk data, and hazard risk scoring in the P&C insurance industry.
You’ll join a team of talented API, Infra, and Data Engineers, faced with an exciting mix of greenfield and legacy projects as HazardHub continues its maturation from startup to an enterprise product within Guidewire. You’ll collaborate with our API Engineers to adopt a contract-driven API management strategy, and you’ll collaborate with our Data Engineers to build out a robust ETL infrastructure. They will look to you to create and support a deployment environment that is reliable, secure, and as toil-free as possible.
Who We Are, What We Believe, & What We Build
Guidewire is the market leader that 400+ insurance companies trust to run their critical platform. Every second, we support underwriters crafting policies and agents settling claims. We believe making a great decision should not require 100 in-house data scientists. Our products range from cyber risk quantification to potent ML sandboxes. We are a post-IPO company with the vision to change insurance. There is a lot to be done!

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Write Terraform modules, Helm charts, and other IaC to create and maintain cloud resources in AWS and other platforms

• Manage an EKS deploy environment where API engineers can develop and deploy GIS microservices in a primarily self-service model

• Help design and implement HazardHub’s next generation API gateway for network ingress, auth integrations, and API management

• Maintain secure deploy environments and assist with evidence gathering for SOC2-style audits

• Implement infra monitoring and alerting 

• Assist API and Data Engineers to architect new GIS services and select the right cloud resources for the task at hand

• Conduct code reviews and work with peers to grow the team’s skills

• Develop robust CI/CD pipelines for your code in GitHub Actions, and assist other engineers in their own efforts to do the same

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes; preference for EKS experience

• Strong knowledge of common IaC tools; preference for Terraform and Helm

• Broad knowledge of current API best practices, architectures, integration styles, technologies, and platforms.

• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting; preference for Datadog

• Proficiency with container image creation, Docker or otherwise

• Proficiency with API contracts (REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL)

• Proficiency with basic cloud networking (ALBs, VPCs, DNS)

• Proficiency with git and CI/CD; preference for GitHub Actions experience

• Proficiency with SQL, PostgGIS is a plus

• Golang experience is a plus

• Familiarity with risk models and other data constructs in the insurance industry is a plus.

• Familiarity with GIS concepts is a strong plus 

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $146,000 - $246,000 . Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to [email protected]. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail [email protected] to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.