Senior Platform Engineer

📋 Description

• • Join Cytora, now part of Applied Systems, and play a pivotal role in revolutionizing the insurance industry. We are at the forefront of digital transformation, leveraging AI-powered platforms to enhance decision-making, boost efficiency, and foster seamless collaboration between insurers and brokers globally.
• • As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in building Cytora's Underwriting Productivity Suite. This suite is a cutting-edge, serverless-based web application designed to significantly increase the efficiency and effectiveness of underwriters, ultimately reducing expense ratios and driving profitable growth for our customers.
• • You will be an integral part of the platform team, which is the backbone of our application's infrastructure. This includes managing and enhancing our robust monitoring systems and optimizing our CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid and reliable delivery of value.
• • Our infrastructure is deployed across AWS and GCP, supporting both single-tenant and multi-tenant environments in Europe, the United States, and Australia. This global reach presents exciting challenges and opportunities for innovation.
• • We champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, utilizing Terraform to manage our cloud resources. This approach ensures consistency, repeatability, and scalability across our deployments.
• • You will work with a sophisticated technology stack, integrating and managing third-party systems such as CircleCI for continuous integration, Datadog for comprehensive monitoring, Auth0 for secure authentication, and ThoughtSpot for data analytics.
• • Our team operates in a dynamic environment where we have a mid-term requirement to scale our platform significantly while simultaneously needing to deliver new features and improvements at a rapid pace. This necessitates an engineer with a keen intuition for balancing system complexity with the need for speed and agility.
• • Beyond core technical responsibilities, we highly value passion for the craft of inventing and building products from the ground up. This means actively contributing to product strategy by providing constructive feedback to product managers and the wider company.
• • You will have the opportunity to influence roadmaps and bring your creativity to bear by suggesting innovative features and improvements, drawing upon your deep technical understanding of what is possible and what the market needs.
• • This role offers a unique chance to shape the future of underwriting technology, directly impacting the success of our clients and the evolution of the insurance sector.
• • You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our core platform services, ensuring they meet the demands of a growing global customer base.
• • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, development, and operations, to define and implement infrastructure solutions that align with business objectives.
• • Contribute to architectural discussions, helping to design and evolve our serverless and cloud-native infrastructure.
• • Develop and maintain robust monitoring and alerting strategies to proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact users.
• • Optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline the development and deployment process, enabling faster iteration cycles.
• • Ensure the security and compliance of our infrastructure, adhering to best practices and regulatory requirements.
• • Mentor junior engineers and share your expertise, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence within the team.
• • Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential application to Cytora's platform.
• • Drive improvements in operational efficiency through automation and process optimization.
• • Participate in on-call rotations to provide timely support for production incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid resolution.
• • Contribute to the development of disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• • You will be a key player in ensuring our platform remains at the cutting edge, supporting the ambitious growth plans of Cytora and Applied Systems.