Technology Engineer Consultant (P4)

COUNTRY Financial • Minneapolis, MN

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re excited you’re interested in a career at COUNTRY as we strive toward our vision - to enrich lives in the communities we serve. Our footprint spans coast to coast. But more important than where we operate, is the people who do the work. Apply today to help our organization grow and make a difference for our clients. About the role The Technology Engineer Consultant – UNIX serves as a senior technical leader and platform owner for COUNTRY’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments across on‑premises and Azure. This role ensures the planning, selection, design, and maintenance of high‑quality, secure, and cost‑effective UNIX/Linux platform solutions that support current and emerging business needs. You will lead the engineering direction for the UNIX platform, driving automation, cloud optimization, compliance, and operational excellence. You will partner closely with IT Security, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Application Development teams to ensure that all platform solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements—including performance, resiliency, security, availability, and scalability. As a platform owner, you will define technical standards, govern platform lifecycle and roadmaps, and ensure systems run effectively in production. You will lead modernization efforts, guide multi-year platform strategy, mentor engineers, and elevate the quality and maturity of the UNIX platform across the organization. How does this role make an impact? - Design, build, implement, and support COUNTRY’s IT solutions. - Ensure IT solutions meet requirements for security, availability, capacity, resiliency, and performance in a way that is efficient and supportable, reducing overall support costs. - Understand industry leading solutions and trends for assigned technologies and applying those as appropriate for COUNTRY. - Understand business needs and partnering with appropriate IT counterparts to recommend technology solutions. - Establish and maintain an IT multi-year strategy with a focus on continuous improvement. Create and maintain solutions architecture artifacts and other strategy and system documentation.

Requirements

• Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience or a combination of related experience, education and training.
• Deep expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux engineering across on‑prem and Azure, with strong experience defining and executing multi‑year platform strategy and modernization efforts.
• Proven ability to lead automation, cloud optimization, compliance, and operational excellence initiatives across large-scale UNIX/Linux environments.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with architecture, security, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable platform solutions.
• Strong proficiency across modern engineering practices and tools, including cloud services, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, containerization, DevOps/automation, backup and recovery, cost optimization, and effective documentation and collaboration—without the need to list each technology individually.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, implement, and support COUNTRY’s IT solutions.
• Ensure IT solutions meet requirements for security, availability, capacity, resiliency, and performance in a way that is efficient and supportable, reducing overall support costs.
• Understand industry leading solutions and trends for assigned technologies and applying those as appropriate for COUNTRY.
• Understand business needs and partnering with appropriate IT counterparts to recommend technology solutions.
• Establish and maintain an IT multi-year strategy with a focus on continuous improvement. Create and maintain solutions architecture artifacts and other strategy and system documentation.

Benefits

• insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life)
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off, parental leave, paid company holidays and paid time off to volunteer in your community
• Tuition assistance and industry education certificates and designations
• Employee resource groups to connect with your peers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed