Sr Systems Software Engineer

About the position

Northwestern Mutual is looking for a hardworking Platform Senior Systems Software Engineer to join our growing Kubernetes Platform team. The Kubernetes Platform team develops, maintains, loves, and appreciates all things containers. We enable hundreds of developers to harness the power of Kubernetes and the cloud to deploy outstanding apps and infrastructure on their own 1000s of times a day. This is a fun, fast-paced experience that exposes you to cutting-edge cloud technologies and encourages personal learning and development.

Responsibilities

• Able to write microservices, that serve the purpose of Platform APIs in a common language used for backend APIs: JavaScript-based, Java, Python, etc
• Demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring junior 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 automation capabilities
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration and continuous development pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 4 - 6+ years of working experience
• 5+ years of professional IT experience
• 4+ years' experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred), and containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes - CKA Preferred)
• 5+ years experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
• 5+ years experience with networking and Linux based platforms
• 5+ years experience with modern programming and scripting languages (Typescript, Python, JavaScript, etc.)
• 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, Jenkins, CodePipeline, or Circle CI
• Experience with Unit Testing
• Experience with Linux and Windows. Understanding how to install, configure and manage. Very comfortable with CLI

Nice-to-haves

• Understanding of certificates, firewalls, vulnerability management, authentication, and authorization
• Experience with automated unit and integration testing
• Experience leading a project from start to finish
• Experience designing solutions from scratch