Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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This opportunity is in the Information Technology department.

Are you passionate about scaling secure, cloud-native systems? As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Safety National, you will play a key leadership role in ensuring our Azure cloud environments and applications are built for resilience, observability, and security. In this hands-on role, you will collaborate closely with Platform Engineering and application development teams to implement best practices in CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and secure software delivery.

You’ll drive the adoption of service reliability metrics, coach teams on security-first engineering, and contribute directly to architecture reviews and incident postmortems. If you re excited by automation, cloud tooling, and embedding reliability throughout the software lifecycle, this is your opportunity to lead innovation at scale.

Education: A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview.
• 10 or more years of experience in Information Technology
• 5 or more years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
• Expertise in building and securing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions
• Strong proficiency with Terraform for secure, repeatable IaC deployments
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services, especially monitoring and security tools such as Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Defender for Cloud
• Experience with observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or ELK/EFK
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Power Shell, Bash, or Go
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or AKS
• Deep understanding of secure software delivery including secrets management, compliance automation, and artifact validation
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to coach development teams and influence architectural decisions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with microservices architectures and distributed systems
• Familiarity with incident management platforms such as Pager Duty or Service Now
• Exposure to chaos engineering or reliability testing practices
• Experience with Git Ops tooling (e.g., ArgoCD) for declarative deployments

Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration, in accordance with Safety National policies, standards, and procedures.

Safety National is a leading specialty insurance and reinsurance provider. Our culture is built upon relationships, which allow us to demonstrate our expertise gained through our rich 80-year history. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokio Marine, Inc., we appreciate the benefits and support provided by our affiliation with one of the top 10 insurance companies in the world.

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