DevOps Engineer

Location(s) Birmingham, Alabama Details Kemper is one of the nation's leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive.

Kemper's products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.

Kemper has an immediate need for a skilled and motivated Dev Ops Engineer to work from our Birmingham office.

This role works as part of a team responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving enterprise Dev Ops and platform engineering capabilities across on-premise and AWS cloud environments. The team supports continuous integration and automated release processes, source-code management, artifact management, container platforms, infrastructure automation, security tooling, and the shared platforms used by application development teams. The focus will be on maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable engineering platforms while improving the efficiency of development, testing, infrastructure provisioning, and product release processes.

The Dev Ops Engineer will work in a dynamic, fast-paced agile environment and will partner closely with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to automate repeatable work, troubleshoot platform issues, and continuously improve developer experience.

Kemper at a Glance The Kemper family of companies is one of the nation's leading specialized insurers. With approximately $12 billion in assets, Kemper is improving the world of insurance by providing affordable and easy-to-use personalized solutions to individuals, families and businesses through its Kemper Auto and Kemper Life brands. Kemper serves over 4.6 million policies, is represented by approximately 24,200 agents and brokers, and has approximately 7,500 associates dedicated to meeting the ever-changing needs of its customers.

Alliance United Insurance Company is not rated. We value diversity and strive to be an employer of choice. An Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V Eligible employees may enjoy benefits such as:
Qualify for your choice of health and dental plans within your first month. Save for your future with robust 401(k) match, Health Spending Accounts and various retirement plans. Learn and Grow with our Tuition Assistance Program, paid certifications and continuing education programs. Contribute to your community through United Way and volunteer programs. Balance your life with generous paid time off and business casual dress.

Get employee discounts for shopping, dining and travel through Kemper Perks. Benefits eligibility may vary based on position classification, scheduled hours, work location, temporary or contingent status, independent contractor status, Skill Bridge participation, and applicable plan terms.

• Ensure quality, reliability, security, and efficiency of Dev Ops platforms and SDLC tooling
• Maintain and improve CI/CD processes that support automated software builds, testing, releases, and deployments
• Design and automate cloud and hybrid infrastructure, including build and test environments, AWS services, container platforms, and deployment workflows
• Provide automation, CI/CD, source control, artifact management, and cloud platform expertise to Application Development teams
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and report on the health, availability, capacity, and performance of build, deployment, and shared Dev Ops infrastructure
• Support and administer enterprise engineering platforms such as Jenkins, Git Lab, JFrog Artifactory/Xray, Sonar Qube, and AWS-based services
• Support Kubernetes/EKS workloads and platform services, including deployment, configuration, access, observability, and troubleshooting
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation for AWS infrastructure, Linux and Windows systems, and repeatable platform operations
• Partner with security and infrastructure teams to implement vulnerability management, secure configuration, access controls, compliance requirements, and hardened operating-system images
• Maintain appropriate technical documentation, operational procedures, and project…