Reliability Engineer Ii Jobs (NOW HIRING)

$75,000 - $120,000 / year + Bonus
Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.
Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.
Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.
We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.
Role Summary
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to support the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical production services. This role contributes to the full-service lifecycle, helping to transition services from deployment readiness into stable production operations. At Vertafore, we treat operations as a software problem; you will work alongside Senior SREs to apply engineering rigor to our AWS and hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
Reliability and Observability Support

• Service Maintenance: Contribute to the operational health and performance of assigned production services.
• Observability Implementation: Assist in building and maintaining observability frameworks. Help track the Four Golden Signals (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation) to ensure service health is visible.
• SLO Contribution: Participate in monitoring SLIs and SLOs, providing data to help the team manage error budgets effectively.

Engineering and Automation

• Toil Reduction and Guided Debugging: Work on projects to automate manual and repetitive tasks using scripting, programming, or AI tools. Troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure and application code, implementing durable solutions instead of quick fixes.
• Deployment Execution: Support production changes such as patching and software releases using established automated pipelines and safety-first practices.

Incident Participation and Learning

• Active Incident Response: Participate in incident response for production events and join on-call rotations.
• Postmortem Contribution: Assist in root cause analysis and contribute to blameless postmortems to help the team learn from failures.

Qualifications

• Experience: 2 to 3.5 years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or a software engineering role with a focus on system stability.
• SRE Fundamentals: Understanding of core SRE principles such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Coding Skills: Proficiency in at least one language such as C#, .NET, Java, Python, or React.
• Technical Skills: Experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or Jenkins), and infrastructure as code.
• Systems Knowledge: Working knowledge of Linux and Windows environments and relational databases.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Skills & Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• A fast learner.
• A problem solver.
• Ability to document procedures.
• Able to meet deadlines.
• Good communication skills. Able to deliver the message effectively to a technical and non-technical audience.
• Able to comply with processes and procedures.
• Able to maintain professional composure in any situations.
• Flexible in working extended hours on occasions or as required.
• Exposure in the insurance industry is desired but not mandatory.
• Driven to improve, personally and professionally
• Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment with ability to work in a team.
Additional Requirements and Details:
• High speed internet to accommodate working from home needs.
• Occasional travel to our office location is required.
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
• Frequent sitting and/or standing.
THE VERTAFORE STORY
Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we're proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight- right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
The Vertafore Way
Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That's why, at Vertafore, it's our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.
• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
• Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
• Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.
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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
Qualifications Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you'd like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *Canada Only

• The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
• Medical, vision & dental plans
• Life, AD&D
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Pension Plan & Employer Match
• Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Education Assistance
• Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition

Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only

• The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
• We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration, community and team-building, with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times, our teams work from home or a similar environment.
• Medical, vision & dental plans
  • PPO & high-deductible options
• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
  • Health Care FSA
  • Dental & Vision FSA
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • Commuter FSA
• Life, AD&D (Basic & Supplemental), and Disability
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plain & Employer Match
• Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance
• Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Education & Legal Assistance
• Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Commuter Benefits (Denver)

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota, MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
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