The Sr. DevOps Engineer will manage risk assessments, improve software solutions, and enhance developer productivity through automation and collaboration.
What's the role?
This Sr. Dev Ops Engineering role on the Actuarial Software Engineering team will focus on the partnership between engineering and risk management partners. To excel in the role, you will combine knowledge of implementation patterns across application and data platforms (Mainframe, Windows, Linux, Docker, AWS) with risk engineering practices to ensure the teams have effectively identified, mitigated, and documented risks in their software solutions. You will have primary responsibility for moving applications through risk assessments, working with application teams to gather evidence of controls and patterns.
The Actuarial Software Engineering team at Northwestern Mutual is responsible for creating and improving systems that ensure the company can meet its financial obligations to its customers, employees, and field representatives. These systems are financial in nature, centered on insurance risk products and benefit plans, and based on the professional knowledge of the actuary. The applications are varied, generally are mathematical, and involve working in close partnerships with technical peers and actuarial business experts.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Bring your best! what this role needs:
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$92,750.00
Pay Range - End:
$172,250.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
205 - Structure 110: 102,060.00 USD - 189,540.00 USD
205 - Structure 115: 106,680.00 USD - 198,120.00 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 who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
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.
This Sr. Dev Ops Engineering role on the Actuarial Software Engineering team will focus on the partnership between engineering and risk management partners. To excel in the role, you will combine knowledge of implementation patterns across application and data platforms (Mainframe, Windows, Linux, Docker, AWS) with risk engineering practices to ensure the teams have effectively identified, mitigated, and documented risks in their software solutions. You will have primary responsibility for moving applications through risk assessments, working with application teams to gather evidence of controls and patterns.
The Actuarial Software Engineering team at Northwestern Mutual is responsible for creating and improving systems that ensure the company can meet its financial obligations to its customers, employees, and field representatives. These systems are financial in nature, centered on insurance risk products and benefit plans, and based on the professional knowledge of the actuary. The applications are varied, generally are mathematical, and involve working in close partnerships with technical peers and actuarial business experts.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Enable developer productivity in support of business objectives
- Assisting development teams to apply automation patterns.
- Creating patterns of automation for CI/CD, infrastructure deployment, maintenance, monitoring, security and compliance using industry and enterprise best practices.
- Partnering with other enterprise teams on emerging best practices, patterns and technology.
- Continuously improve patterns and workflow by collecting and responding to feedback and key metrics.
- Proactively learn emerging platforms and related technology
- Ability to solve complex technical issues and enable/teach peers to be self sufficient
- Ability to provide thought leadership throughout the local work division
Bring your best! what this role needs:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience 4-5 years
- 4 years of professional IT experience • 4 years experience with at least one OS/hosting platform (i.e. Linux, Windows, AWS, Kube)
- 2 year's experience with integration of n-tier applications (i.e. DNS, HTTP, SSL, Encryption, Authentication)
- 2 years experience with CI/CD concepts and tools (i.e. GitLab, testing concepts, change management, blue/green, infrastructure as code)
- 2 years experience with infrastructure automation tools or coding/scripting (i.e. ansible, terraform, python, JavaScript, PowerShell)
- Creative problem solving skills
- Proactively learn emerging platforms and related technology
- Ability to solve complex technical issues and enable/teach peers to be self sufficient
- Ability to provide thought leadership throughout the local work division
- Experience with Agile methodologies/DevOps environment
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$92,750.00
Pay Range - End:
$172,250.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
205 - Structure 110: 102,060.00 USD - 189,540.00 USD
205 - Structure 115: 106,680.00 USD - 198,120.00 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 who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
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
Top Skills
Ansible
AWS
Ci/Cd
Docker
Gitlab
JavaScript
Linux
Mainframe
Powershell
Python
Terraform
Windows
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