Solution Architect

Company: Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Location: Milwaukee
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
About the role:
In this hybrid position, bridge DevOps, Architecture, and Software Engineering into the Test Environments and Test Data space. NM Test Enablement Platform Services (TEPS) organization is looking for an inspiring leader to help drive technical solutions for our Non-Prod environments and Test Data teams.

• Influence Northwestern Mutual's enterprise Test Environment and Test Data strategy and technical approach.
• Provide thought leadership on architecture & business matters TEPS teams.
• Architect solutions that take into account, availability, security, compliance, privacy and legal requirements.
• Provide leadership to influence peers in and outside of the domain, vendor relationships, and organization vertical.
• Thoughtfully and practically introduce concepts and technologies from the industry to solve important problems.
• Remain current on new technologies and available vendor packages; evaluate and make recommendations as necessary.
• Coach and mentor less experienced engineers, along with assigning and suggest stretch assignments.
• Assist in task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing. Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • 6-8 years of professional IT experience
  • 6-8 years experience with at least one OS/hosting platform
  • 6-8 years experience in performance tuning of application stacks, OSs, DBs etc.
  • 3 years experience with Cloud based PaaS and SaaS platforms and integration points to On Prem infrastructure
  • 6-8 years experience with virtualization and containerization
  • 6-8 years experience with monitoring and performance management of systems
  • 6-8 years experience with Scripting development
  • 6-8 years experience with networking knowledge
  • 6-8 years experience with Identity Platform and tools
  • 4 years of professional IT experience.
  • 6 years of domain specific experience for role.
  • 2 years experience outside primary domain with concepts such as basic network troubleshooting (connectivity, DNS).
  • 4 years experience with modern development and scripting languages
  • Experience with CICD concepts, and tools, branching strategies and leveraging knowledge to assist in delivering an infrastructure as a product.
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills within area of expertise, and in adjacent domains.
  • Solid understanding of traditional or cloud computing technologies including Networking, Compute, Storage, Development, Data, Operations, or Security.
  • 4 years experience in one of the following (AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows) administration and configuration.
  • Experience creating, delivering and supporting highly available architectures.
  • Experience with multiple delivery methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
    Compensation Range:
    Pay Range - Start:
    $118,510.00
    Pay Range - End:
    $169,300.00
    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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    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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