Join an amazing team that is consistently recognized for our achievements and culture, including our most recent Forbes award of being one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2024!

State specific pay scales for this role are as follows:

$102,678 to $194,588 (CA, NJ, NY, WA, HI, AK, MD, CT, RI, MA)

$93,344 to $176,898 (NV, OR, AZ, CO, WY, TX, ND, MN, MO, IL, WI, FL, GA, MI, OH, VA, PA, DE, VT, NH, ME)

$84,009 to $159,208 (UT, ID, MT, NM, SD, NE, KS, OK, IA, AR, LA, MS, AL, TN, KY, IN, SC, NC, WV)

The expected base salary for this position will vary depending on a number of factors, including relevant experience, skills and location.

Position Summary:

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of a reliable, scalable, and agile enterprise application platform. A significant part of the SRE’s responsibility is to orchestrate and automate software packaging, integration, testing, and deployment from technology, process, practice, and skillset perspectives. This individual must be a technologist & engineer at heart and be comfortable in enabling new technology and being hands-on with the execution of the strategy. Must exhibit a deep understanding of modern technology stack and agile delivery models, demonstrated focus on customer experience, and must have a proven track record of modernizing technologies.

Close collaboration and alignment with business teams, application development teams and security will be required. As such, exceptional abilities in building and maintaining strong working relationships and organizational savvy will be required. High level communication and presentation skills are required.

Essential Job Functions: 

• Works independently and under supervision, takes initiatives to gather requirements, design and implement CICD with tight collaboration with all other technical teams and customers. Must be able to work in agile style team as well as traditional project team, supporting multiple projects and teams simultaneously.
• Implement best practices for software delivery continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD).
• Work with our infrastructure organization on environment setup, and automation.
• Develop and improve our monitoring and alerting systems.
• Automate security-related activities such as code scanning, package scanning, and vulnerability scanning.
• Assist in developing automated testing, deployment testing, code versioning and Github actions.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation in consultation with other teams of the technology group.
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline.
• Effectively manage and leverage Docker and Kubernetes container platforms.
• Work with various Engineering teams to outline the DevOps execution strategy for different projects.
• Drive Automation efforts across the organization utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Configuration Management, and Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) tools such as Jenkins.
• Assist with organization wide security considerations. Find the best ways to identify security risks and incidents and suggest improvements and create automation as needed to detect and mitigate those risks.
• Demonstrates Mercury’s core values of People, Service Excellence, Trustworthiness, Process Simplicity and Product Value.
• Interacts cordially and professionally with customers, vendors, superiors, and peers.
• Regular attendance on a full-time schedule including 7x24 system support as required.

Education: 

Minimum:

• BS in Computer Science or related field

Preferred:

• MS in Computer Science or related field

Experience:

Minimum:

• 4+ years in an SRE, DevOps or software development role.

Preferred: 

• Experience working with Agile tools such as Jira / Confluence etc.
• Knowledge of web application development
• Deep experience with Docker, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python and scripting languages.
• Experience working within Agile development teams.
• Knowledge / Expertise in cloud platforms, Linux Operating Systems, Networking, and Database.
• Deep experience with DevOps Management tools (repository, packaging, unit testing, code scanning, package scanning such as Maven, Gradle, Helm, Sonatype).
• Prior exposure to continuous integration/delivery tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

Why choose a career at Mercury?

At Mercury, we have been guided by our purpose to help people reduce risk and overcome unexpected events for more than 60 years. We are one team with a common goal to help others. Everyone needs insurance and we can’t imagine a world without it.

Our team will encourage you to grow, make time to have fun, and work together to make great things happen. We embrace the strengths and values of each team member. We believe in having diverse perspectives where everyone is included, to serve customers from all walks of life.

We care about our people, and we mean it. We reward our talented professionals with a competitive salary, bonus potential, and a variety of benefits to help our team members reach their health, retirement, and professional goals.

Learn more about us here: https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/about/careers

We offer many great benefits, including:

• Competitive compensation
• Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
• Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, paid Company holidays, and volunteer hours)
• Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
• 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Engaging work environment
• Promotional opportunities
• Education assistance
• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Company recognition program
• Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more

Mercury Insurance is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.