Mercury Insurance · 1 month ago
Principal SRE Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$128K/yr - $252K/yr
18+ years expMercury Insurance is recognized for its achievements and culture, including being named one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2026. The Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a senior-level role responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a reliable and scalable enterprise hybrid application platform, focusing on automation and collaboration with various teams.
Property & Casualty InsuranceInsurance
Responsibilities
Works independently and under supervision, takes initiatives to gather requirements, design and implement CICD with tight collaboration with all other technical teams and customers. Must be able to work in agile style team as well as traditional project team, supporting multiple projects and teams simultaneously
Implement best practices for software delivery continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD)
Work with our infrastructure organization on environment setup, automation, and streamlining the stand up and scale out of infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IAC)
Develop and improve our monitoring and alerting systems
Automate security-related activities such as code scanning, package scanning, and vulnerability scanning
Assist in developing automated test, deployment test, code versioning and Github actions
Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation in consultation with other teams of the technology group
Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline
Architect, design and deploy AWS resources including provisioning, monitoring and maintenance
Effectively manage and leverage Docker and Kubernetes container platforms
Work with various Engineering teams to outline the DevOps execution strategy for different projects
Drive Automation efforts across the organization utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Configuration Management, and Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) tools such as Jenkins
Assist with organization wide security considerations. Find the best ways to identify security risks and incidents and suggest improvements and create automation as needed to detect and mitigate those risks
Owns company’s CICD technology stack. Executes on roadmap items in collaboration with SME teams (e.g. infrastructure, application, QA, Governance) and system owners. Research and recommend new technology, solutions, protocols, and standards in support of adoption and upgrade of enterprise CICD platform
Owns company’s service hosting decision tree by developing a host of factors tilting decision on-prem, hybrid or in the Cloud
Demonstrates Mercury’s core values of People, Service Excellence, Trustworthiness, Process Simplicity and Product Value
Interacts cordially and professionally with customers, vendors, superiors, and peers
Regular attendance on a full-time schedule including 7x24 system support as required
Various marginal functions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technology areas
18 – 20 years overall related technology experience
8 - 10 years' experience in heavy infrastructure, DevOps / CICD in large transformation organizations
Experience working with Agile tools such as Jira / Confluence etc
Knowledge of web application development
Deep experience with Docker, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python and scripting languages
Experience working within Agile development teams
Knowledge / Expertise in cloud platforms, Linux Operating Systems, Networking, and Database
Deep experience with DevOps Management tools (repository, packaging, unit testing, code scanning, package scanning such as Maven, Gradle, Helm, Sonatype)
Prior exposure to continuous integration/delivery tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
Preferred
5 or more years of hands on experience with cloud database technologies (AWS RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB)
A DevOps Engineer Certificate preferred
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
Engaging work environment
Promotional opportunities
Education assistance
Professional and personal development opportunities
Company recognition program
Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
Company
Mercury Insurance
Mercury Insurance has offered quality insurance for personal auto insurance to homeowners insurance to mechanical breakdown protection.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Mercury Insurance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
91%
Represents job field similar to this job
Engineering and Development
Product Management
Management and Executive
Accounting and Finance
Customer Service and Support
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2026 (14)
2025 (22)
2024 (23)
2023 (14)
2022 (15)
2021 (8)
2020 (13)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$525M2026-06-10Post Ipo Debt· $525M
1985-11-29IPO
Leadership Team
T
Ted Stalick
SVP & CFO
V
Victor Joseph
President & Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
PR Newswire
2026-07-10
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The Journal Record
2026-07-02
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