Senior Storage & Backup Software Engineer

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Franklin, WI
Hybrid
100K-186K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Fintech • Insurance • Financial Services
Start-Up Vibes with The Stability of a Fortune 100 Company.
The Role
The Senior Storage & Backup Software Engineer will lead technical solutions in software development, supporting automation and CI/CD pipelines, mentoring junior engineers, and addressing technical challenges. Responsibilities include developing software for storage solutions, applying engineering best practices, and automating infrastructure management.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring junior engineers
  • 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 review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project
  • Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration and continuous development pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
  • Support third party vendor backup software (cloud and on-premises), enterprise SAN and NAS platforms, and object storage (cloud and on-premises)
  • Apply automation and scripting solutions to drive towards zero-touch infrastructure management, and infrastructure as code


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
  • At least 4 years of working experience
  • 5+ years of professional IT experience
  • 3+ years experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred), and containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes - CKA Preferred)
  • 5+ years experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
  • 5+ years experience with networking and Linux based platforms
  • 5+ 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
  • Experience with Unit Testing
  • Experience with Linux and Windows. Understanding how to install, configure and manage. Very comfortable with CLI
  • Experience with enterprise SAN, NAS, and backup software


LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$100,030.00
Pay Range - End:
$185,770.00
Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additiona l information relating to location-based pay structures.
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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

  • Flexible work schedules
  • Concierge service
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Employee resource groups

Top Skills

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The Company
HQ: Milwaukee, WI
8,400 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1857

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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