Cloud Engineer

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference. The Northwestern Mutual Cloud Foundations team is looking to grow! Will you join us?Our Public Cloud Platforms enable many of the most exciting technologies and processes within the organization, including AI, Machine Learning, and DevOps/DevSecOps across dozens of teams! We need someone to learn and grow with us to provide world class solutions for a secure and stable Cloud environment! Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Work to automate and improve the developer experience for our 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/or automation capabilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• At least 2 years of working experience
• AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
• Experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred), Azure, and containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes - CKA Preferred)
• Experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
• Experience with networking, Linux based platforms, and modern programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript)
• 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, CodePipeline, or Circle CI
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Problem solver who enjoys learning on the job and thinking outside of the box

Compensation Range: Pay Range - Start:$73,570.00Pay Range - End:$105,100.00Please 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. 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.