About Beam
Beam was founded in 2012 by three engineers who saw the opportunity to
modernize the dental benefits industry using technology. The first product was
the Beam Brush, which was one of the earliest examples of the Internet of
Things in healthcare.
Today, Beam Benefits is a digitally-led employee benefits company that offers
dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health coverage. The
company simplifies and modernizes the $100+ billion ancillary benefits
industry through its intuitive online platform, self-service tools, AI-powered
underwriting, and thoughtful coverage for improved overall wellness. Its Beam
Perks™ program offers incentives to members and rewards them for healthy
behaviors. Beam is available in 44 states across the U.S.
Joining Beam Benefits Means
• Working in a complex and dynamic business, simultaneously operating across
insurance, CPG manufacturing, IoT, and dental services • Being supported and
encouraged to improve every day by working collaboratively with a diversely
skilled team • Engaging in an energizing, committed, and fun work environment
• Being empowered as an ‘owner’ of your subject matter and work • Joining in
our mission to forever change the way people access benefit • Being a person
of high character, high EQ, and amazing talent
**The Role:**
Beam is looking for an experienced infrastructure leader to lead our talented
Site Reliability Engineering team. This team's mandate is to write software to
automate the operations of our Engineering organization and to own Service
Level Objectives that lead to an increase in the structural quality of our
software and the reliability of our applications. This role is crucial to the
success of Beam's Engineering efforts.
**What You Will Bring:**
You’re an experienced player/coach who believes strongly in shared ownership
of infrastructure and related tooling. You're just as comfortable digging in
to solve problems as you are with mentoring others. You have worked closely
with engineers to design, build, and support service-oriented architectures.
You believe in spreading DevOps knowledge throughout the engineering
organization, by focusing on building tools and processes that enable
development teams to own their infrastructure and break down typical DevOps
silos. You have a strong background in writing infrastructure as code, and a
strong desire to automate processes.
### What You Will Do:
* Integrate and evangelize SRE/DevOps practices within our development workflow
* Work closely with engineers and leaders in our Platform organization to shape the direction of our infrastructure and tooling
* Consult with senior engineers and engineering leadership to inform service architecture and technology choices
* Identify and nurture great talent that can execute on your initiatives
* Establish, measure, and own Service Level Objectives across our infrastructure
* Develop best practices for monitoring and alerting throughout our application/infrastructure, and proactively identify opportunities for improvement
* Work with engineers to design scalable systems that keep pace with Beam’s rapid growth
* Evolve, promote, and assist with the implementation of our Incident Response Framework
* Advance the team’s security posture and level up the engineering organization’s security practices
* Develop documentation and training to onboard and level up the infrastructure knowledge within the organization
### What Technical Skills Will Help You Be Successful:
* 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar infrastructure engineering role
* 2-3 years of experience building infrastructure solutions in AWS
* 2-3 years of experience using Terraform or a similar tool to provision cloud infrastructure
* 2+ years as a Team Lead or Manager, including conducting 1:1s and managing performance and career progression of direct reports
* Strong practical knowledge of Docker, container registries, and container orchestration technologies (specifically Kubernetes and ECS)
* Working knowledge of database technologies (specifically MySQL)
* Experience with continuous delivery and deploy automation
* Knowledge and experience applying security best practices for cloud-based infrastructure
Beam Benefits focuses on Healthcare, Insurance, Dental, Internet of Things,
and Health and Insurance. Their company has offices in Columbus and Erlanger.
They have a large team that's between 201-500 employees. To date, Beam
Benefits has raised $88.6M of funding; their latest round was closed on May
2019.
You can view their website at <http://www.beambenefits.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/beambenefits),
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/beambenefits),
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/beambenefits/), and [Product
Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/beam-3).
