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Safety National · 1 day ago

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

St Louis, MO

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$99K/yr - $128K/yr

10+ years exp

Safety National is a leading specialty insurance and reinsurance provider, seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to ensure their Azure cloud environments and applications are built for resilience, observability, and security. The role involves collaborating with Platform Engineering and application development teams to implement CI/CD automation and secure software delivery practices while driving the adoption of service reliability metrics.

Financial ServicesInsurance

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Ensure Azure cloud environments and applications are built for resilience, observability, and security

Collaborate closely with Platform Engineering and application development teams to implement best practices in CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and secure software delivery

Drive the adoption of service reliability metrics, coach teams on security-first engineering, and contribute directly to architecture reviews and incident postmortems

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringCI/CD automationInfrastructure as CodeMicrosoft AzureTerraformDockerKubernetesPythonPowerShellBashGoCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required

Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future

This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview

10 or more years of experience in Information Technology

5 or more years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Expertise in building and securing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Strong proficiency with Terraform for secure, repeatable IaC deployments

Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services, especially monitoring and security tools such as Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Defender for Cloud

Experience with observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or ELK/EFK

Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or AKS

Deep understanding of secure software delivery including secrets management, compliance automation, and artifact validation

Strong communication and collaboration skills to coach development teams and influence architectural decisions