Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Why us? 

Insurify is one of the America’s fastest-growing MIT FinTech startups and has been recognized as one of Inc. 5,000’s fastest-growing private companies in America of 2023, 2022 and 2021, Forbes Fintech 50 List for 2023, 22, 21, Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups of 2022 global and Top 100 InsurTech company. We’re a profitable company, that's changing the way millions of people compare, buy and manage insurance with artificial intelligence, technology, and superior product design. We are proud to be the largest online insurance distribution and comparison platform in the USA. 

Our company vision is to be recognized as the preeminent and most trusted digital agent for insurance comparison, purchase, and management.  Our team is critical to achieving our vision and fostering the right culture is essential to our team’s success.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer with deep expertise in AWS to lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will architect and manage AWS environments, ensuring they align with business needs while optimizing performance, cost, and security. 

Key Responsibilities:

• AWS Architecture: Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure AWS cloud environments, including compute, storage, and networking.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): Automate infrastructure provisioning, management, and scaling using Terraform.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure AWS environments meet best practices for security, availability, and compliance with industry standards.
• Cost Optimization: Analyze and optimize AWS usage to reduce costs while maintaining performance.
• Disaster Recovery & High Availability: Design and implement disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) strategies.
• Monitoring & Performance: Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for infrastructure health and performance.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to support infrastructure requirements and CI/CD pipelines.
• Documentation & Best Practices: Maintain infrastructure documentation and ensure best practices are followed across the team.

What you need to succeed

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 2 years focused on AWS.
• AWS Expertise: Deep knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, etc.). AWS certification (Solutions Architect or similar) is a plus.
• Terraform: Strong experience automating infrastructure using Terraform.
• Security & Networking: Proficiency in AWS security and networking (VPC, subnets, VPN, security groups, etc.).
• Cost Management: Proven experience optimizing AWS environments for performance and cost.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps principles.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• Enhanced private medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• Yearly wellbeing budget or Multisport card
• Personal budget for learning and books
• Employee Assistance Program and other wellbeing perks
• Office kitchen and fun area with snacks and beverages
• Regular social events
• Friendly office culture
• Hybrid office