Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Hartford is seeking a Reliability Engineer to join the Corporate / HIMCO IT team. This role focuses on maintaining system stability and performance across cloud and SAAS environments through infrastructure resilience and automation.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Instrument application stacks to track availability, performance, and quality metrics.
• Guide technical strategy and architecture rationalization across cross-functional teams.
• Act as a technical lead for supported applications, integration points, and business domains.
• Create automated tooling and alerting to detect, mitigate, and resolve infrastructure risks.
• Improve delivery speed while maintaining reliability standards and cost efficiency.
• Manage incident triage and service restoration to minimize business impact.
• Maintain accurate IT application and infrastructure metadata repositories.
• Develop AI-based anomaly detection and troubleshooting assistants to automate system recovery.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Proficiency in AWS and Kubernetes-based microservices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Programming skills in Python and Java for automation.
• Familiarity with Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• Experience working within Agile frameworks.
• Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship (no STEM OPT I-983 support).

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML frameworks for predictive failure detection and observability.
• Knowledge of open-source database technologies.

Skills & tools

• Observability: Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch.
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Languages: Python, Java.
• Databases: Oracle, SQL Server.

Practical notes

Employment is contingent upon compliance with the HIMCO Code of Ethics, which includes disclosure of financial accounts, pre-clearance of trades, and potential disclosure of political contributions under the Pay to Play Policy. Total compensation includes base pay plus potential bonuses and long-term incentives.