The Role
Build and operate scalable, secure cloud platform capabilities across AWS and Azure. Develop automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and observability. Collaborate with engineering, security, and network teams to deliver standardized, self-service platform services and improve reliability and governance.
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About the role
As a Cloud Engineer III on Cloud Foundations, you'll help build and run the secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platform capabilities that power Northwestern Mutual's technology ecosystem. This team is moving toward a services- and automation-first model, where core cloud capabilities are delivered through standardized patterns, APIs, pipelines, and self-service workflows rather than one-off manual provisioning. You'll work across AWS and Azure to improve platform consistency, strengthen governance and observability, and reduce friction for application teams adopting cloud services.
This role is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys solving real platform problems, improving how things operate at scale, and partnering across engineering, security, and network teams to turn solid architecture into usable, supportable services. We value technical curiosity, practical automation, clean engineering habits, and a mindset that balances speed with stability, security, and long-term maintainability.What you'll do:
What you'll bring:
Skills you have
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$98,320.00
Pay Range - End:
$147,480.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$108,160.00 USD - $162,240.00 USD
Structure 115:
$113,040.00 USD - $169,560.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
Skills
Software Engineering (NM) - Advanced, Cloud & IT Infrastructure (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Technology Roadmap (NM) - Intermediate, CI/CD Processes (NM) - Advanced, DevOps (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Site Reliability Engineering (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Business Application (NM) - Intermediate, Cloud Technology (NM) - Advanced, Infrastructure Automation (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Programming Languages (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate, Agile Results Delivery (NM) - Intermediate
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
As a Cloud Engineer III on Cloud Foundations, you'll help build and run the secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platform capabilities that power Northwestern Mutual's technology ecosystem. This team is moving toward a services- and automation-first model, where core cloud capabilities are delivered through standardized patterns, APIs, pipelines, and self-service workflows rather than one-off manual provisioning. You'll work across AWS and Azure to improve platform consistency, strengthen governance and observability, and reduce friction for application teams adopting cloud services.
This role is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys solving real platform problems, improving how things operate at scale, and partnering across engineering, security, and network teams to turn solid architecture into usable, supportable services. We value technical curiosity, practical automation, clean engineering habits, and a mindset that balances speed with stability, security, and long-term maintainability.What you'll do:
- Demonstrate technical leadership within the team
- Proficiency in DevOps and Agile principles
- Apply engineering standard methodologies to analyze and develop software solutions
- Leverages established coding standards, best practices, and automation capabilities to develop solutions to support our users
- Identify technical problems and develop software solutions and automation capabilities
- Have the technical skill to adequately review the software code developed in the project
- Strive for continuous improvement on all aspects within the team and build continuous integration and continuous development pipeline (CI/CD)
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
- 2-4 years of working experience
- 3+ years of professional IT experience
- Experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred), and containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes - CKA Preferred)
- 3+ years' experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
- 3+ years' experience with networking and Linux based platforms
- 3+ years' experience with modern programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience working with DevOps, CICD, GitOps, Agile methodologies
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation and how to apply it with services such as Gitlab CI, Jenkins, CodePipeline, or Circle CI
- Understanding of certificates, firewalls, vulnerability management, authentication, and authorization
- Understanding of Unit Testing
- Experience with Linux and Windows. Comfortable with CLI
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Problem solver who enjoys learning on the job and thinking outside of the box
Skills you have
- CI/CD Processes: Involves expertise in implementing and maintaining automated testing processes for software delivery pipelines. Requires knowledge of version control systems. Builds tools and continuous integration servers to enable continuous testing, integration, and delivery of software products. Collaborates with developers to ensure that automated tests are executed at each stage of the pipeline, identifies and reports issues, and provides feedback to improve the overall quality of the applications.
- Cloud & IT Infrastructure: Embraces, prioritizes, and applies DevOps principles and mindset to cybersecurity services and capabilities; leverages understanding of enterprise IT environment from operating system to networks and domain services and orchestrates applications and infrastructure through a pipeline approach.
- Cloud Technology: Applies knowledge of cloud service platforms and delivery models to support, develop, adopt, secure, implement and evaluate end-to-end cloud solutions delivery and data storage instead of through traditional physical servers in a back office.
- Infrastructure Automation: Articulates and applies systems architecture and automation technologies to support and implement automation optimization and initiatives.
- Site Reliability Engineering: Uses software tools to automate IT infrastructure tasks such as system management and application monitoring. Ensures software applications remain reliable amidst updates from development teams. Improves reliability of scalable software systems.
- Software Engineering: Designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains software applications for the organization to use to process complex technical information. Demonstrates the ability to convert design specifications into functional software solutions that meet customer needs. Includes planning, designing, programming, debugging, testing, documenting and maintaining applications and services, using established coding standards and methodologies. Ensures that the code delivered is reusable and modular. Uses software development processes in which the smallest testable parts of an application (units) are individually and independently scrutinized for proper operation.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$98,320.00
Pay Range - End:
$147,480.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$108,160.00 USD - $162,240.00 USD
Structure 115:
$113,040.00 USD - $169,560.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
Skills
Software Engineering (NM) - Advanced, Cloud & IT Infrastructure (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Technology Roadmap (NM) - Intermediate, CI/CD Processes (NM) - Advanced, DevOps (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Site Reliability Engineering (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Business Application (NM) - Intermediate, Cloud Technology (NM) - Advanced, Infrastructure Automation (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Programming Languages (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate, Agile Results Delivery (NM) - Intermediate
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 2-4 years of working experience
- 3+ years of professional IT experience
- Experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified preferred)
- Experience with containerized applications and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes - CKA preferred)
- 3+ years experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
- 3+ years experience with networking and Linux-based platforms
- 3+ years experience with modern programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, Agile methodologies
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation (GitLab CI, Jenkins, CodePipeline, CircleCI)
- Understanding of certificates, firewalls, vulnerability management, authentication, and authorization
- Understanding of Unit Testing
- Experience with Linux and Windows; comfortable with CLI
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Problem solver who enjoys learning and thinking outside the box
- AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification
What the Team is Saying
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Regional Financial Consultant
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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Northwestern Mutual Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The package includes both a 401(k) and a company‑funded cash balance pension with automatic company contributions and disclosed vesting. This dual‑plan structure and cash‑balance credits strengthen long‑term savings support.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, caregiving leave, and adoption/surrogacy assistance are explicitly provided for eligible employees. Fertility and family‑building resources are also highlighted as part of the offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are paired with mental‑health resources and access to on‑site health centers in key locations. Fitness centers and reimbursements extend health and wellness support beyond core insurance.
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The Company
What We Do
You’ll Like It Here At Northwestern Mutual, we believe that our lives and our work matter. And that doing what’s right is good for everyone. We follow through by designing tech that improves the community and cultivating creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere. These guiding principles have allowed our company to grow for more than 160 years. Here, you’ll be with a team who emphasizes integrity and prioritizes security to design experiences that better everyone. You’ll work in cross functional teams to create optimal solutions that are rooted in innovative strategy and thoughtful execution. And you’re provided development tools and opportunities to become a leader all with the support of a collaborative team. You’ll be surrounded in a culture that values innovation and works to always evolve to stay ahead of trends and client needs. We are intentional in seeking out team members who will challenge us. Our employees choose us for the career opportunities, commitment to philanthropy and desire to have a meaningful impact in the lives of our clients. You have career passions and goals. We have ambition and opportunity for you to grow your future in tech. Discover today: https://careers.northwesternmutual.com/
Why Work With Us
We invest in our people. We know careers are about choices, so we provide intentional opportunity. Here you can build creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere and revolutionize traditional processes. As a mutual company, our focus is our people — whether professional development or investments in the community.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We offer a flexible, hybrid approach for our employees . Teams are in the office a few days a week and work from home the others.
Typical time on-site:
Flexible
