Senior DevOps Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company nearly 160 years ago. Today, they're just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual.

We're strong and growing. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual. We're strong, innovative and growing.

We invest in our people. We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their career and in turn, our business.

We care. We make a positive difference in our communities. Nationally, thousands have benefitted from our support of research and programs to fight childhood cancer. Each year, our Foundation, employees and financial representatives donate time, talent and financial support to causes they're passionate about.

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.

In this position you will:

* Partner with development teams to design and manage CI/CD pipelines
* Manage Kubernetes clusters with a mix of stateful and stateless applications
* Manage AWS infrastructure
* Design highly available fault tolerant systems and put it to the test with chaos engineering experiments
* Collect data to give teams complete visibility into application deployments and performance
* Obsessively look to automate/improve current processes
* Work with development teams to troubleshoot environment issues
* Experiment with cutting edge technologies to find new ways of solving problems

Required Skills:

* Hands on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef or Puppet
* Strong background in infrastructure as code using Terraform
* Working knowledge of the AWS stack
* Experience in containerizing applications using Docker
* Hands on experience with Kubernetes and Helm
* Experience with CICD tools such as Gitlab CI, Jenkins or Spinnaker
* Comfortable with Git and familiar with the Gitflow process
* Strong development background, experience with at least one scripting language
* Ability to solve ambiguous problems with little to no direction

Desired Skills:

* Background in Linux/Unix Administration
* Experience with tracing micro-services with Jaeger
* Monitoring experience with Prometheus and Grafana
* Working knowledge of service meshes using Istio or Linkerd
* Hands on experience with Kubernetes Stateful Sets and Portworx
* Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases
* Production support experience
* AWS certification

Req ID: 24179

Position Type: Regular Full Time

Education Experience: Bachelor's Required

Employment Experience: 6-8 years

Licenses/Certifications:

FLSA Status: Exempt

Posting Date: 10/26/2018