Job Description

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

To support our growing team, we are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer. The teammate taking on this role will be a technical leader who is passionate about creative problem solving.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

* 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 standard methodologies.
* 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 take on complex technical issues and enable/guide peers to be self sufficient
* Ability to provide thought leadership throughout the local work division

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience 4-5 years
* 4 years of professional IT experience
* 4 years proven ability with at least one OS/hosting platform (i.e. Linux, Windows, AWS, Kube)
* 2 years 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

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

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