SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER
(Full Time, Salary, Exempt)
Looking to join a growing company dedicated to helping others? We offer that, plus competitive salaries, a culture of learning, and a fast-paced environment. This is a hybrid position with 3 days in-office. Join our team to help make a difference in the lives of others!
In addition to the posted base salary range, this role includes eligibility for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance. Total compensation will be determined based on the individual's qualifications, including education and relevant industry and work experience.
About Continental General:
The Continental General family of companies has provided insurance, including life and long-term care policies, to individuals and groups for over 30 years, and currently supports over 200,000 policyholders. Both our insurance company, Continental General Insurance Company, and our third-party administrator, Continental General Services, are committed to the continuous development of our infrastructure, processes, and people. The group is actively growing through expansion of both its insurance portfolio and its administrative services. With each opportunity, we take a collaborative approach to address challenges and provide unique solutions.
Position Summary:
We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer who has a solid foundation in cloud and automation and is excited to keep growing. If you enjoy understanding how systems work under the hood and want a role where you can continually expand your knowledge, this is a great place to do it.
You’ll be exposed to a broad range of cloud technologies and tooling. We encourage curiosity, continuous learning, and practical hands-on exploration as part of everyday work.
Key Responsibilities:
- CI/CD Support & Pipeline Operations - Own, support and maintain our deployment pipelines, ensuring builds and releases run reliably across environments.
- Infrastructure Automation - Assist with Infrastructure-as-Code efforts and contribute to ongoing automation improvements using tools such as AWS CDK.
- Cloud Environment Support - Work with core AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda) to keep our environments dependable and well structured.
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting - Use CloudWatch or Datadog to monitor system health, investigate issues, and help identify recurring problems.
- Developer Collaboration - Partner with developers to troubleshoot environmental issues and improve deployment workflows.
- Documentation & Process Improvements - Update runbooks, capture deployment steps, and contribute ideas to simplify and strengthen our operational processes.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or the equivalent years of education and experience required.
- 2–4 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Operations, or a related engineering field
- Working knowledge of AWS fundamentals (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda)
- Ability to automate tasks with Bash, Python, or PowerShell
- Familiarity with Git and CI/CD concepts
- Curiosity, initiative, and a desire to understand how systems behave
- A collaborative, supportive mindset geared toward helping developers and teammates succeed
- Preferred:
- Exposure to AWS CDK or other Infrastructure as Code approaches
- Basic Docker/containerization familiarity
- Experience with Datadog dashboards or CloudWatch log insights
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Experience participating in Agile ceremonies
- Interest in security best practices or cloud native security tools
- Experience improving developer workflows or internal tooling
Why Join Us?
- A Place to Learn and Grow - We’re a learning focused team. You’ll get opportunities to work with new tools, expand your cloud knowledge, and deepen your DevOps skills through hands on experience.
- Breadth of Exposure - You’ll interact with many parts of our environment — cloud services, automation, deployments, observability, scripting — building a strong foundation for your technical growth.
- Supportive Engineering Culture - We believe in blameless problem solving, open communication, and creating an environment where engineers feel comfortable asking questions and exploring new ideas.
- Real Impact - Your work will directly improve the developer experience, system reliability, and daily operations across the organization.
- Collaborative and fast-paced work environment.
- Professional development and growth opportunities within the finance and investment space.
Benefits:
- Competitive Salary & Target Bonus Program
- Retirement Savings – 401(k) with a company match
- Comprehensive Medical insurance through BlueCross BlueShield of Texas. Company-paid dental, vision, short-term & long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Work-Life Balance – This role offers 20+ days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and paid volunteer time off.
- Flexible Work Options & Perks – Hybrid opportunity, wellness programs, and weekly paid lunch for onsite staff.
- Health Savings Accounts (HSA) & Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) – Includes a company match for HSAs.
