Senior Platform Engineer

Founded in 1978, GAINSCO offers property and casualty insurance with an emphasis on non-standard personal auto policies. It serves drivers nationwide by providing minimum-limits personal auto coverage, making insurance more accessible to a broader market. In 2020, GAINSCO, Inc. and its subsidiaries were acquired, making a significant milestone that strengthened GAINSCO’s ability to grow and expand its reach in the personal auto industry market while continuing to build on its decades of specialized expertise.

Join a team that is dedicated to supporting your professional growth and long-term success.

At GAINSCO, we are a team driven by passion, creativity, and a commitment to excellence. We celebrate achievements, encourage innovative thinking, and recognize the unique strengths each person brings. Our people truly set us apart. If you’re seeking a company where your contributions are valued, your efforts have a visible impact, and your dedication is recognized, take the next step in your career with us.

• Lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code across Azure and VMware environments.
• Modernize Azure Dev Ops pipelines and strengthen automated deployment processes.
• Establish and promote CI/CD standards across the technology organization.
• Design observability, configuration management, and release-management practices.
• Partner with IT Operations, Software Development, and Delivery and QA teams to improve platform engineering capabilities, pipeline quality, and release readiness.
• Provide senior technical guidance across platform engineering initiatives.
• Support production deployments and participate in scheduled after-hours and on-call support.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, plus the required experience outlined below.
• In lieu of a degree, candidates must have the required experience outlined below plus at least 4 additional years of professional IT experience in infrastructure, software development, Dev Ops, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Dev Ops Engineer Expert, Hashi Corp Certified:
  Terraform Associate, preferred.

• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or Dev Ops.
• 5+ years of Windows Server and IIS architecture and administration experience.
• 3+ years of production Infrastructure as Code experience
• 3+ years of Azure Dev Ops pipeline experience, including YAML pipeline development and Classic-to-YAML migrations.
• 3+ years designing CI/CD solutions.
• 3+ years working with enterprise observability platforms.
• Strong enterprise experience with Microsoft Azure and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Experience managing release and deployment pipelines
• Advanced Power Shell skills and proficiency with an additional scripting or programming language.
• Working knowledge of configuration management tools, secrets management tools, pipeline security controls, including SAST and DAST, and cloud cost-optimization practices.

• Strong judgment in identifying automation opportunities and establishing technical priorities.
• Ability to develop clear, documented, reusable, and idempotent automation that other engineers can maintain.
• Deep platform engineering knowledge with the ability to provide technical guidance across infrastructure, cloud, software development, and delivery teams.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across complex enterprise environments.
• Excellent technical communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to explain complex technical decisions to technical and non-technical…