Remote Lead DevOps Engineer — CI/CD & Platform Reliability

Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

401(k) with employer match

Pension plan

Generous paid time off

Professional development support

Job summary

Texas Windstorm Insurance Association seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure governance for Guidewire platforms. You will lead architecture, roadmaps, and security standards, mentoring engineers and modernizing deployment at scale.

You will collaborate with engineering and business teams to remove bottlenecks, improve speed and quality across the software lifecycle, and own production release processes in a fully remote setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years relevant experience in deployment/configuration, cloud and security.
• 5+ years hands-on full SDLC software development; JAVA experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Automate and streamline CI/CD pipelines to improve productivity and quality.
• Own lifecycle management of Jenkins including backups, upgrades, plugins, and stability.
• Automate backups, patches, data integrity, and restore workflows.
• Engineer build/deploy pipelines and environment management for Guidewire platforms.
• Manage secrets and secure configurations across environments.
• Automate production releases, maintenance, and service orchestration.
• Enhance EDW/ETL automation and monitoring for reliability.
• Implement IaC with Terraform and Ansible.
• Lead containerization and orchestration efforts.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and reliability engineering.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and ops teams on delivery and architecture.

Skills

CI/CD design

Jenkins

Cloud (AWS)

Scripting (Python, Bash, Groovy)

SQL/Databases

Git/Source control

IaC (Terraform, Ansible)

Security best practices

Container orchestration

Communication/leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Texas Windstorm Insurance Association seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure governance for Guidewire platforms. You will lead architecture, roadmaps, and security standards, mentoring engineers and modernizing deployment at scale.

You will collaborate with engineering and business teams to remove bottlenecks, improve speed and quality across the software lifecycle, and own production release processes in a fully remote setup.