Sureify · 3 weeks ago
Director of DevOps
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expSureify is on a mission to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry. They are seeking a Director of DevOps to lead global infrastructure strategy, cloud operations, and developer experience, ensuring the reliability and security of their platform while managing a high-performing team of engineers.
B2BEnterprise SoftwareFinTechInsuranceInsurTechInternet of ThingsLife InsuranceSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define the vision and roadmap for DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Sureify. Align technical decisions with business goals (e.g., cost optimization, uptime, speed to market)
Recruit, mentor, and retain a world-class team of DevOps engineers. Foster a culture of automation, continuous improvement and psychological safety
Oversee the management of our AWS environment using Terraform and Kubernetes. Ensure our infrastructure is immutable, reproducible, and scalable
Partner with the Security team to enforce SOC2, HIPAA, and ISO standards within the CI/CD pipeline
Obsess over the 'inner loop' of development. Optimize CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) to ensure our developers can deploy code rapidly and safely
Champion an SRE mindset. Improve our monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks (New Relic, Prometheus) to ensure 99.99% availability
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Delivery leadership to align infrastructure strategy with customer delivery timelines, ensuring reliable launches and long-term client success
Manage cloud costs (FinOps), ensuring we are scaling efficiently without unnecessary waste
Qualification
Required
10+ years in engineering/operations, with at least 3 years in a people-management role
Deep technical mastery of AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, etc.)
Proven experience running Kubernetes in production at scale
Experience working in regulated industries (Insurance, Fintech, Healthcare) and managing compliance requirements (SOC2, GDPR)
You lead by example and judge ideas based on quality, not the title of the person proposing them
Preferred
Familiarity with our core stack is a huge plus: Node.js, React, and MySQL/PostgreSQL
Experience working in an organization that has both R&D and Professional Services/Implementation arms
Company
Sureify
Sureify is an industry leading SaaS platform for Life and Annuity companies.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$26.8MKey Investors
Aspen Capital GroupTIMIA Capital
2021-09-28Series C· $15M
2020-05-05Series B· $5M
2019-07-19Debt Financing· $2M
Leadership Team
Dustin Yoder
Chief Executive Officer
Ben Brantley
CTO
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