At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
SUMMARY:
Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 161 years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and innovative technology to best serve our clients.
Do you want to have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology and be a key contributor to a next generation data platform? If so, this is the role for you!
We're searching for a Senior Site Reliability/ DevOps Engineer who will be part of our Core Data & Analytics team, building and maintaining the infrastructure that our data platform runs on.
Remote Opportunity- Work from Home or Onsite in Milwaukee, WI
PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Apply engineering best practices in order to analyze, design, develop, deploy, and support software solutions.
• Participate in an Agile implementation and maintenance of source control and release procedures.
• Contribute to a collaborative work environment in which all team members are respected regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve both their individual and team contributions.
• Develop SDLCs using continuous Deployment and integration practices.
• Work with modern CI/CD pipeline technologies involving git repositories, static code analysis, test-driven development etc.
• Partner with development teams to improve automated delivery through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Collaborate with risk and compliance members to ensure certification of CI/CD pipeline artifacts
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills and can execute alone but is an awesome teammate!

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 4 years of professional software engineering, debugging, analysis, and software documentation experience.
• Extensive AWS experience - certifications preferred but not required
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and supporting technologies (ex: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Understanding of distributed data systems and applications
• Familiar with tooling to support logging, metrics, and telemetry (ex: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, as well as application deployment approaches (ex: kubectl, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, etc.)
• Proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Code Knowledge: Python, JVM (Java, Scala), Apache Spark, SQL.
• Experience with Agile methodologies/DevOps environment.
• Basic understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Basic understanding of Data Quality and Data Concepts.
• Basic understanding of Data Integration Patterns and Tooling including ELT/ETL, EII, Replication, Event Streaming, and Virtualization to support batch and real-time data needs.
• Proficient craftsperson on Software and Quality Standards.
• Advanced programming skills.
• Ability to explain technical solutions to technical teams.
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimal direction.
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.

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This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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