DevOps Engineer
Austin, TX (Onsite 4 days per week)
Note: This is a full-time role and we do not offer C2C or C2H employment and are not able to sponsor visas for this position.
Acrisure Innovation is where human expertise meets advanced technology.
Acrisure Innovation is a fast paced, AI-driven team building innovative software to disrupt the $6T+ insurance industry. Our mission is to help the world share its risk more intelligently to power a more vibrant economy. To do this, we are transforming insurance distribution and underwriting into a science.
At the core of our operating model is our technology: we’re building a digital marketplace for risk and applying it at the center of Acrisure, a privately held company recognized as one of the world's top 10 insurance brokerages and the fastest growing insurance brokerage globally. By leveraging technology to push the boundaries of understanding and transferring risk, we are systematically converting data into predictions, insights, and choices, and we believe we can remove the constraints associated with scale, scope, and learning that have existed in the insurance industry for centuries.
Our culture is entrepreneurial, innovative, and collaborative. We seek out new ideas, execute with urgency, and continuously challenge the status quo. We have limitless potential to achieve unprecedented success in the insurance industry. To achieve our ambitious vision, we need a best-in-class team that thrives in a fast-moving environment.
The Role
As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure to accelerate our development process. You will work closely with engineers and DevOps team members to optimize cloud infrastructure, improve developer workflows, and strengthen security practices.
This role is ideal for an experienced DevOps engineer with familiarity of Software Engineering principles and a passion for automation, cloud technologies, and system optimization.
Here are some of the ways in which you’ll achieve impact:
- Enable engineers to do their best work
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to streamline cloud provisioning and automation.
- Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve developer efficiency and system reliability.
- Ensure security and compliance best practices are followed in all DevOps processes.
- Assist in monitoring and performance tuning of infrastructure, applications, and cloud services.
- Support containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Troubleshoot system and network issues, working collaboratively across engineering teams.
- Help drive continuous improvement in DevOps workflows, identifying areas for automation and efficiency.
- Document DevOps practices and influence development teams.
You may be fit for this role if you:
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or
equivalent experience.
- Have 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with exposure to DevOps principles and cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, or Azure); direct DevOps experience is a plus.
- Are proficient in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or Go).
- Have experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab).
- Have hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
- Have a strong understanding of Kubernetes and containerization best practices.
- Are skilled in system administration (Linux-based environments).
- Have a working knowledge of networking, security, and monitoring tools (Datadog, NewRelic, etc.).
- Have a strong understanding of software development principles and the ability to collaborate with developers (Java/Kotlin, Python, or other languages).
- Possess empathy, kindness towards others, a positive attitude, and
self-awareness.
- Have experience working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Are willing and able to work on-site in Austin, TX.
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Acrisure Innovation Austin, Texas, USA Office
Our Downtown Austin office is a stone's throw to the Texas Capitol where you can enjoy a stroll or lunch on the lawn, close to public transportation options and very walkable to restaurants and Town Lake.
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