Lead Systems Software Engineer

Company: Northwestern Mutual
Location: Franklin
Posted on: November 12, 2024

Job Description:

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference. We are seeking a Lead Systems Software Engineer to join our team and take on a pivotal role in our API Management journey. This is a highly rewarding opportunity for someone looking to further develop their technical expertise within an ever-changing and dynamic environment. As the Lead Engineer on the team, you will be exposed to a diverse range of tools and technologies, shaping the course of our modernization efforts.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring engineering best practices to include analyzing, designing, developing, and deploying and supporting software solutions and/or infrastructure implementations/upgrades.
• Responsible for ensuring production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis of our platform
• Establish, aggregate, and share enterprise standards and best practices
• Lead the identification of technical problems and develop software solutions and automation capabilities to ensure the resiliency of our platforms
• Provide technical leadership by leading design and code review, mentoring junior engineers, and exploration of new capabilities to improve our developer experience
• 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
  • 6+ years of working experience with hands on development using modern programming and scripting languages (Python, Go, JavaScript)
  • 3+ years' experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred) and containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes - CKA Preferred)
  • 3+ years' experience in DevOps or SRE roles
  • Strong experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
  • Shown experience with integration of n-tier applications (i.e. REST, DNS, SSL, Encryption, Authentication, Load Balancing)
  • 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, Code Pipeline, or Circle CI
  • Experience with Unit Testing
  • Experience leading engineering efforts by creating and leading multi-month roadmaps
  • Experience translating technical requirements into business requirements to help connect it back to the overall NM Strategy
  • Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers
  • Experience dealing with ambiguity and conflicting priorities Job Expectations:
    • Ability to work onsite(Milwaukee or Franklin) in the office at least 3 days per week. #LI-Hybrid Compensation Range: Pay Range - Start: $110,040.00 Pay Range - End: $204,360.00 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. Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our client's interests at the center of all we do. Get started now! 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. If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
      
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