Job Description

IND Staff Engineer, Reliability - GCC070

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.

The Hartford is seeking a Staff Reliability Engineer within theCTOorganization and will have end-to-end technicalaccountabilities inreliability engineering, production support, andapplicationoperationsfora product withinpersonal linesportfolioin a highly distributed,integrated,multi-platform environment

We are looking for aStaff Reliability Engineerwho:

• Hands-on experience designing and configuring Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing modules

• Has a strong technical understanding of complex traditional and modern architectures and systems

• Fundamentally treats Production Support as a Software and Systems Engineering Problem

• Has natural inclination to automate and drive self-healing capabilities

• Has innate curiosity of how systems work and is a continuous learner

• Applies pragmatic design patterns, reliability, and incident management best practices to build solutions for complex problems

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure operational excellence. Independently drive the triaging and service restoration of all critical incidents and minimize the impacttobusiness.

• Ensure stability and performance of the systems in application portfolio across both production and pre-production environments.

• Continuously improve the observability of our technology stack by evolving the usage of logs, metrics, tracing, dashboards, monitoring alerts, and integration of metrics with CI/CD pipelines.

• Guide the use of best-in-class software engineering standards, tools, and design practices to enablehighly availableand performant customer-facing applications.

• Lead adoption of metrics of overall application health - availability, performance, monitoring, alerting, quality,currencyand resiliency

• Perform troubleshooting, analysis,researchand resolution of production incidents using advanced query and programming skills

• Oversee application quality and integrity during production support changes through the software development life cycle, including accuracy of technical designs, build,testingand implementation.

• Drive root cause analysis and permanent solution through sound problem management practices.

• Ensure transition from development to production meets or exceeds all operational requirements.

• Ensure strict adherence to IT regulatory and compliance requirements for all applications, drive remediation of all internal, regulatory andSoXaudit findings.

• Ensure that all technical documentation and artifacts are accurately prepared,maintainedand cataloged.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ yearshandsondevelopment on the DuckCreek platform.

• Deep experience configuring and extending Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing, includingrating, forms, rules, billing schedules, and/or payment workflows.

• Experiencein full-stack including software components, database,platformsand network infrastructure

• Degree in Computer Science or related disciple with at least 5+ years of hands-on experience in IT systems analysis, design,developmentand application support.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and concepts with prior or current development experience in one or more of the following languages: C#/Net, Java, Restful and Soap Web Services, HTML5, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, JSON, XML

• Thorough understanding and experience with SQL/T-SQL/PL SQL on SQL Server or Oracle relational database technologies

• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, ADO, Jenkins, Nexus, Rally,SonarQubeetc..

• Familiarity with observability tools like Dynatrace and Splunk is essential

• Solid understanding of technologies that support the services offered for cloud applications (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is essential and Gen AI solutions is a plus

• Firm analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice to Have

• Understanding of technologies that support the services offered for cloud applications (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and Gen AI solutions is a plus

What We Offer

• Collaborative work environment with global teams.

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

• Continuous learning and growth opportunities in geospatial and risk analytics technologies.

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