Sr Systems Software Engineer

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
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.
At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company over 160 years ago. Today, they're just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Write well-designed, testable code
• Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Identify technical problems and develop software solutions and automation capabilities
• Apply engineering standard methodologies to analyze and develop software solutions
• Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration and continuous development pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring junior engineers
• Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project
• Proficiency in DevOps and Agile principles
• Leverages established coding standards, best practices, and automation capabilities to develop solutions to support our users

Qualifications

• Understanding of certificates, firewalls, vulnerability management, authentication, and authorization
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• At least 4 years of working experience
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation and how to apply it with services such as Gitlab CI, Jenkins, CodePipeline, or Circle CI
• Experience with Linux and Windows. Understanding how to install, configure and manage. Very comfortable with CLI
• 5+ years of professional IT experience
• Experience working with DevOps, CICD, GitOps, Agile methodologies
• 5+ years experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
• 5+ years experience with networking and Linux based platforms
• Experience with test-driven development
• Ability to document requirements and specifications
• 3+ years experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred), and containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes – CKA Preferred)
• Experience with Unit Testing
• 5+ years experience with modern programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
• AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
• Proficiency in software engineering tools
• Proven work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer

Compensation Range
Pay Range - Start:
$97,930.00
Pay Range - End
$139,900.00
Please note that this 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 additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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