Application Infrastructure Developer

About the job

A career at Auto-Owners is challenging and rewarding.  Our group of caring associates create financial security by helping individuals and businesses make a new start when a loss occurs.

Job Description

We offer a merit-based work-from-home program based on job responsibilities. After initial training in-person, this specific role could have the flexibility to work from home up to 3 days per week.

Please note that we are not currently hiring fully remote positions. All candidates must have the ability to work in one of our tech offices. Our tech office for this role is in Lansing, Michigan.

Auto-Owners Insurance, a top-rated insurance carrier, is seeking a motivated individual to join our IT Division as an Application Infrastructure (DevOps) Engineer. Responsibilities include development and support of software application infrastructure for new or existing systems, including but not limited to application deployment automation, repository maintenance, application security, scripting, performance monitoring, and third-party software administration. The ideal candidate would have experience with object-oriented software development and experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) across various Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC). Additionally, an ideal candidate would have knowledge of automation and scripting tools, source code management tools, containerization software, and databases. This position works directly with many key internal stakeholders such as software engineers, system administrators, database administrators, security engineers, and test automation engineers.

Knowledge of IT Infrastructure technologies and experience as it relates to the items below would be desired:

• Manage Linux based Jenkins servers
• Maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines (written in Groovy) that integrate with Bitbucket, OpenShift, and build tools such as Maven and NPM
• Configure and monitor Kubernetes (OpenShift) namespaces and work with tools such as Helm and Argo
• Maintain a Kafka installation running in Kubernetes (OpenShift)
• Maintain Tekton (OpenShift Pipelines) based CI/CD pipelines
• Manage Windows virtual servers running third-party software and work with IIS, PowerShell and Active Directory
• Monitor servers and applications using tools such as Instana, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Diagnose and troubleshoot database‐related issues
• Monitor systems availability and capacity
• Identify performance issues and provide suggestions for optimization

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or another related degree is required. Candidates without a four-year degree, but with several years of relevant experience, may also be considered.
• Must be able to learn and effectively use tools and development techniques as practiced, acquired, or adopted within the IT Division.
• Some object-oriented development experience is strongly preferred (Java, C#, and/or Python). This experience can be from a course, class, or project.
• Experience with SQL, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell, and/or SSRS/SSIS is preferred.

Benefits

Auto-Owners offers a wide range of career opportunities, and we are seeking talent that will help us continue our long tradition of success. We offer a friendly work environment, structured training program, employee mentoring and an excellent compensation/benefits package. Along with a competitive base salary, matched 401(k), fully-funded pension plan (once vested), and bonus programs, Auto-Owners also provides generous paid time off including holidays, vacation days, personal time, and sick leave. If you're looking to do rewarding work alongside great people, Auto-Owners is the place for you!

Equal Employment Opportunity

Auto-Owners Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. The Company hires, transfers, and promotes on the basis of ability, without consideration of disability, age, sex, race, color, religion, height, weight, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, or any factor contrary to federal, state or local law.

*Please note that candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

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