Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description: Who are we?

Western National Insurance Group is a private mutual insurance company with over 120 years of experience serving customers' property-and-casualty insurance needs in the Midwestern, Northwestern, and Southwestern United States. Known as “The Relationship Company®,” we define success as a measure of the relationships we’ve built over time. In everything that we do, we know that delivering a friendly and helpful interaction makes for a better experience for everyone involved. That’s the power of “nice”. At Western National, nice is something we work to bring to every person and organization with whom we partner and serve.

Does this opportunity interest you?

Western National is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to join our team!

The individual in this role will have the opportunity to design, implement, manage, and monitor on-premise and cloud-based application platforms. This individual monitors, resolves, and proactively prevents system outages and performance issues while partnering with product teams to improve application deployment, infrastructure stability, and reliability.

What are the responsibilities and opportunities of this role?

• Designs, deploys, and maintains scalable and secure platform infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Participates in work refinement and estimation processes with product teams.
• Utilizes modern software delivery technologies to assist product teams with application deployments.
• Leverages automation tools to ensure processes are repeatable and efficient.
• Solicits and performs peer reviews of application and infrastructure designs and implementations in accordance with team, product, and organizational standards.
• Recommends and designs solutions that improve application deployment and stability and trains product teams on how to use the solutions.
• Creates and maintains documentation, including support processes, team processes, system document