Senior Systems Software Engineer

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)

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

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 c lick here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups