Cloud Enablement Engineer [Remote-US]

Quanata, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Remote-friendly

Home office stipend

PTO 4 weeks

Parental leave

Professional development allowance

LinkedIn Learning access

BetterUp coaching

Job summary

Quanata, LLC is seeking a Cloud Enablement Engineer to provide AWS-centric infrastructure and developer tooling. The role focuses on enabling software engineers to rapidly deliver software while managing cloud infrastructure standards and security requirements.

You will collaborate with product teams to optimize deployment in IaC environments and improve developer experiences. A remote-friendly role with strong compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 3–5 years of AWS Cloud Services or developer tooling experience.
• 3+ years with AWS technologies including PaaS offerings.
• 2+ years with distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and GitLab/GitHub.
• Experience with Go, Python or Bash.
• Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience containerizing workloads with ECS, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong communication and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement AWS cloud standards for infrastructure, networking, and software components.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize applications for IaC deployment.
• Maintain automation and deployment processes to improve developer experience.
• Support pattern libraries for IaC to enable plug-and-play environments.
• Assist in monitoring and logging solutions to ensure platform performance.
• Contribute to developer training and documentation for Platform products.
• Promote reliable systems and best practices across teams.
• Participate in on-call rotation for internal developer services.
• Help meet security and compliance requirements in AWS environments.

Skills

AWS Cloud Services

Go

Python

Bash

Terraform

Pulumi

ECS

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

GitLab/GitHub

Serverless

Education

Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or equivalent relevant professional experience

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

ECS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab

Github

Job description

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Quanata is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.

As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.

The role

Quanata is seeking a Cloud Enablement Engineer to join us in providing a suite of solutions centered by AWS services that enable our product development and engineering organization to create, and deliver Quanata’s technical offerings. Our team focuses on enabling software engineers to reliably and rapidly deliver software, and manage the company’s cloud infrastructure standards, while empowering developers to build for their needs.

• Implement AWS cloud standards for infrastructure, networking, and software components, optimizing for security, speed, and cost-efficiency.
• Support new technologies to stay ahead of the needs of the business.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure their applications are optimized for deployment in an IaC environment, and meet security and compliance requirements.
• Support and maintain automation and deployment processes to enable and improve developer experience and efficiency.
• Support our pattern libraries for IaC to enable developers to “plug-and-play” to build out their own environments
• Support monitoring and logging solutions to allow development teams to assure their platform is performing at its best.
• Encourage developer autonomy and self-service by contributing to developer training and documentation for Platform products.
• Promote a supportive culture focused on building reliable systems and processes based on established best practices in the industry.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in AWS, including security, performance and scalability issues.
• Support our security and compliance measures to ensure the AWS services meets regulatory requirements.
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide support for internal developer services.

About you

• Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or equivalent relevant professional experience and;
• 3-5 years of experience in AWS Cloud Services or developer experience tooling to include:
• Three or more years of experience working with specific AWS technologies including PaaS specific offerings.
• Two or more years of experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience and understanding of CI/CD processes and commercial tooling such as GitLab and Github.
• Experience and understanding of Go, Python, or Bash languages
• Experience and understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience enabling and troubleshooting containerized workloads in ECS, Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
• Experience engaging with users of developer platforms to ascertain needs and opportunities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to contribute during code reviews, and capture tasks.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail.

At least one associate-level AWS certification (or willingness to provide proof of certification within 6 months of employment).

Bonus Points

• Working with serverless technologies within AWS or GCP
• Experience with Multi-Region deployments within AWS or GCP
• Prior involvement in running developer surveys or gathering feedback to guide DevEx improvements.

Salary: $155,000 to $205,000*

*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

• Benefits : We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits. These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• Work from Home Equipment : Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
• Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
• Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location : We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
• Hours : We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.

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