Listing Description

So, what’s the role?

We welcome people from all backgrounds who are driven by a passion of creating great engineering teams and awesome products that users love. As VP Cloud Operations & Security, you will lead multiple teams as we build and rethink software and technology for the home insurance industry.  As a leader, we’ll rely on you to build and deliver high performing technical teams through hiring, coaching, and mentoring. This is a broad role and includes managing infrastructure, corporate IT, security, site reliability engineering, and releasing software safely to production.

A day in the life could include: 

• Collaboratively work with the engineering teams to plan, design, and deploy infrastructure and applications in cloud environments. Enable self-service infrastructure management.


• Enable product engineering teams to be more productive. Reduce friction, champion greater collaboration and remove barriers to productivity.


• Create & maintain an automated solutions for infrastructure deployments using modern tools/technologies.


• Laying out processes to reduce/eliminate downtime and improve scalability and reliability.


• Cloud & data are a big part of our expense base. You will be put in controls and processes to monitor and reduce costs on an ongoing basis.


• Security will roll up under this function. You should have exposure to running security teams and creating a security program.


• Thinking about how DevOps can improve developer productivity. Collaborating on our Data infrastructure and ML run time.


• Building a 16x5 model for support.

I’ve got the skills… but do I have the necessary ones?

• We expect every leader to have a strong vision. This one in particular. We want you to paint a vivid picture of the future of engineering. How does infrastructure as a service evolve? How do releases become smoother? How do we lower risk? Lower costs? There are an endless number of things, and we want you to tell us where you will lead this team. And why the team should be excited to have you!


• Min 12+ years of relevant experience building and supporting application platforms or infrastructure


• Strong understanding of Cloud Infrastructure/Data technologies on AWS. Passion to build self-service systems


• Hands-on experience in developing scripts using Shell/Python/Ruby/Powershell, etc - although we don’t expect you to code!


• Proficient in containerization technologies such as Docker, ECS, etc


• Hands on experience in configuration/orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc


• Should have experience in build & release management using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Github, Bitbucket, etc


• Experience Network and application security. Developing and creating a security program/team


• Understanding of GRC programs, SOC2 compliance and related controls, data security, and auditing


• Exceptional problem solving & analytics skills


• Location in Central or Eastern time zones (CST & EST) strongly preferred

Oh, and don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! 

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance


• Flexible PTO policy 


• Very generous equity options and 401K


• Parental Leave


• Continuing education and professional development 


• Disability and Life Insurance 


• The excitement of joining a high-growth Insurtech company and seeing your work make an impact