Platform Engineer II

Amerisure creates exceptional value for its partners, policyholders, and employees. As a property and casualty insurance company, Amerisure’s promise to our partner agencies and policyholders begins with a comprehensive line of insurance products designed to protect businesses, as well as the health and safety of every employee. With an A.M. Best “A” (Excellent) rating, Amerisure serves mid-sized commercial enterprises focused in construction, manufacturing and healthcare.

Ranked as one of the top 100 Property & Casualty companies in the United States, we proudly manage nearly $1 Billion of Direct Written Premium and maintain $1.21 billion in surplus.

We are recruiting for a Platform Engineer II to join our team.  This is a hybrid position working out of our Farmington Hill, MI office 3 days a week and 2 from home.

Position Summary:

The Platform Engineer II works closely with application engineering teams to enhance the design, development, and maintenance of an internal developer platform (IDP) that enables engineering teams with self-service capabilities. Expanding on foundational expertise, this role takes on more complex responsibilities, including optimizing cloud-based solutions to meet organizational needs, ensuring compliance with security policies, and implementing scalable automation to improve efficiency and reduce manual processes.

Responsibilities:

Contribute to the design and implementation of platform services that support product engineering teams, focusing on scalability and reliability. Assist in building tools, libraries, and frameworks that enhance the developer experience and streamline deployment pipelines.

Maintain infrastructure codebase with attention to quality and security practices.

Help maintain self-service infrastructure capabilities, such as CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning, and monitoring systems, ensuring efficient and scalable operations.

Implement and manage infrastructure using IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible) to ensure consistent environments across development, staging, and production.

Monitor platform performance and reliability using logging and alerting systems (e.g., Datadog, Pager Duty). Provide input on optimizing resource utilization and improving system stability.

Managing containerized environments with tools like ECS and Docker. Work with development teams to deploy and monitor container orchestration systems, such as EKS and Kubernetes, ensuring efficient scaling and operations.

Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance data platform infrastructure using technologies such as Databricks and AWS RDS.Collaborate with software engineers, QA, and Dev Ops teams to understand platform needs and support solutions that improve development and deployment workflows.

Ensure platform security, compliance, and reliability by following organizational policies and best practices. Assist in automating related processes where possible.

Support ongoing efforts to optimize data workflows and infrastructure through automation and performance tuning.

Stay informed about emerging technologies and industry trends in platform engineering, cloud services, and Dev Ops, identifying opportunities to improve processes and tools.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
3 years of experience working in Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with a focus on building developer platforms.
3 years of experience working with Dev Ops principles, including version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
3 years working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI).Certified AWS Solutions Architect or…