[Hiring] Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer @Porch Group

Role Description

The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we'd love for you to be a part of it as our Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer with the Information Technology team. Help us build world-class infrastructure in public cloud, mainly GCP and AWS. We are seeking a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer with a strong focus on AI-enabled platforms and automation to design, build, and operate highly scalable, secure, and intelligent cloud infrastructure.

As a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing, building, and operating highly scalable, secure, and intelligent cloud infrastructure.
• Maintaining and improving the reliability and performance of our company's technology stack.
• Working closely with development teams to design scalable and highly reliable software systems.
• Optimizing CI/CD pipelines using AI insights.
• Leveraging automation to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across cloud environments.
• Identifying and resolving complex issues before they impact customers.
• Implementing automation to streamline our operations.
• Advocating for best practices in reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Mentoring junior engineers and driving technical initiatives.
• Collaborating across departments to achieve our reliability goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software or Systems Engineering preferred, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Expertise with cloud-based systems and containerized infrastructure (Linux/OS fundamentals, Kubernetes, database systems, cloud networking).
• Deep expertise with GCP required, with significant expertise across two or more (GCP and AWS) preferred.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms and integrating AI-powered DevOps tools.
• Experience working with and supporting database infrastructure, mainly MySQL and SQL Server databases, in AWS and GCP.
• Familiarity with LLM-based systems, vector databases, or AI APIs.
• Expertise building common web/internet platform components (e.g. proxies, caches, load balancers, firewalls, app/web server tiers, DB systems).
• Unix scripting experience required, and a willingness to learn/support technologies you may not presently know.
• Conceptual and practical knowledge of modern DevOps techniques, such as CI/CD, IaC, configuration management, and secrets/vault management.
• Expertise in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and applications in a distributed/microservice environment.
• Hands-on experience with Cloudflare.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
• Experience managing GitHub Organizations, repo permissions, and branch protection policies.
• Excellent written and communication skills in the English language.
• Proven experience working with US based business teams.
• Ability to work within core US business hours / time zone expectations - Eastern Standard Time (EST) overlap.

Requirements

• Build infrastructure/systems that balance operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
• Improve the observability of our systems to anticipate and address issues before they become critical.
• Contribute to DevOps roadmaps, helping balance priorities like modernizing past infrastructure, supporting new projects and deployments, and improving/hardening systems.
• Integrate AI-powered tools into DevOps workflows for predictive monitoring, anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, and auto-remediation.
• Leverage AI/ML insights to optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and infrastructure performance and cost.
• Build and maintain self-healing systems using AI-based observability platforms.
• Support initiatives for modernizing/centralizing our cloud footprint in partnership with various teams.
• Design and enforce SDLC, InfoSec, and compliance requirements.
• Assist with root cause analysis/remediation for system incidents.
• Provide support to the engineering team in basic database operations (SQL Server, MySQL).
• Manage, patch, and monitor MySQL and SQL Server databases running in AWS and GCP.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Manage repository structure, branch protection, and access controls across the GitHub Organization.
• Automate release processes and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and Infrastructure as Code.
• Configure and manage Cloudflare services: DNS, CDN caching rules, Page Rules/Rulesets, Load Balancing, Workers, WAF, and Zero Trust (Access/Tunnel).
• Provide 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, and on-call support as part of the DevOps team.
• Perform other IT related duties or projects, as assigned.

Benefits

• Pay Range*: ₹24,75,000 – ₹34,65,000 INR Annually
• Comprehensive coverage for health, life, and financial wellbeing.
• Medical insurance, accident insurance, and retiral benefits.
• 12 company-paid holidays, 2 flexible holidays, privilege/earned leave, casual/sick leave, paid maternity and paternity leaves, and weekly wellness events.