DevOps Engineer II

Founded in 1985, SelectQuote provides solutions that help consumers protect their most valuable assets: their families, health and property. The company pioneered the model of providing unbiased comparisons from multiple, highly rated insurance companies allowing consumers to choose the policy and terms that best meet their unique needs. Two foundational pillars underpin SelectQuote’s success: a strong force of highly trained and skilled agents, who provide consultative needs analysis for every consumer, and proprietary technology that sources and routes high quality leads. The company has three core business lines: SelectQuote Senior, SelectQuote Life and SelectQuote Auto and Home. SelectQuote Senior, the largest and fastest-growing business, serves the needs of a demographic that sees 10,000 people turn 65 each day with a range of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans.

Job Summary:

In the DevOps Engineer II role, engineers are responsible for implementing automation solutions that help increase the speed of our ability to deliver features to production while working with other DevOps Engineers at SelectQuote. This role manages the CI/CD pipeline with our application teams for automated deployments. They are responsible for developing the configurations for foundational components to build our development environments and provide guidance, oversight, and direction for the projects and how we manage our infrastructure within the cloud. We would like the individual in this role to have a security-based mindset, as well as the ability and desire to provide mentorship amongst peers.

Essential Functions:

• Establish and adhere to development scope and timelines in accordance to the overall project and in line with SelectQuote-provided development tools and processes
• Design and create scalable, automated solutions to service our customers and internal development team
• Document solutions to issues and communicate across teams
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with business line stakeholder(s) and vendor partners on the technical solution development activities and deliverables
• Consult with business line stakeholder(s) and vendor partners in an analysis role
• Lead by example through demonstration of high performance in the areas of customer service, collaboration, teamwork, reliability, productivity, and execution

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• 3-5+ years of technical experience in either development, operations, or full-stack implementations
• Minimum 3-5 years experience with AWS or Azure
• At least 1-2 years of demonstrated programming capability in a high-level programming language such as Ruby, Python, Java, C#, or scripting languages
• Demonstrated Linux or Windows command-line capability
• Deep understanding of the core suite of AWS or Azure Services
• Experience establishing and employing Continuous Integration practices and tools such as Jenkins, bitbucket, git or other CI tools
• Frequent and comfortable use of configuration management automation tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform

Training & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience
• Solid understanding of Javascript, Docker, Python, Bash, GitHub, Jenkins, and JIRA
• 3-5 years of Software engineering work experience, or 3-5 DevOps experience 1-2 years successful engagements providing continuous delivery solutions, preferable

Benefits:

It’s an exciting time to join SelectQuote. We became a publicly traded company in 2020 with the first 100% virtual IPO (non-biotech) in American history. We have also been recognized nationally on the 2021 Top Workplaces USA list and by the Kansas City Business Journal as a 2020 Best Places to Work honoree.

Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, voluntary short-term disability, company-paid long term disability, company-paid life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), 401(k) + company match and 100% vesting after 4 years, discretionary profit sharing, employee stock purchase program (espp), paid time off, floating holidays, paid maternity leave, paid parental bonding leave, tuition reimbursement, jury duty pay, and other paid leaves vary based on work location