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Platform Engineer - Cloud Services (Hybrid)

  • Part-time
  • Hybrid remote in Madison, WI 53715
  • June 7, 2023
  • American Family Insurance

Job Description

This position will be a member of the Cloud Services Product Group within Enterprise Technology Services. With an initial focus on either private cloud service delivery or the delivery of infrastructure solutions running across public (AWS, GCP and Azure) cloud environments, supporting the consolidation of five operating companies on-premise infrastructure services with an emphasis on leveraging infrastructure as code to provide application hosting services. We will consider hiring at the Lead Engineer level with the right qualifications, to be assessed during the interview process. Compensation Minimum:$90,200 / year Compensation Maximum:$165,700 / year Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Primary Accountabilities Develop, enhance and maintain tools, systems and software solutions Develop, integrate, and test systems, solutions, or products. Performs incident triage, including determining scope, urgency, and potential impact. Makes recommendations that enable expeditious remediation. Conducts technology evaluations and re-engineering activities to support strategy definition and continuous improvement activities. Build strong relationships with Peers across functions through collaborative engineering operations and initiatives. Design and implement automated solutions to enable development needs Designs and develops system/solution measures to ensure solutions are fully integrated. Validates current and future-state architectural models to assess impact across all technology systems. Leads, analyzes and responds to the changing system/solution of the company and our clients with agility and flexibility. Analyzes gaps and recommends mitigating and compensating controls. Leads and participates in outage/SWAT meetings to mitigate system/solution issues. Implements service catalog automation working with key partners within Enterprise technology and security teams In addition to the technical competencies outlined in the job description, the ideal candidate will have experience with at least a subset of the following: Automation of infrastructure delivery with configuration orchestration and management solutions (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform) Understanding of coding practices and developing in a preferred scripting language (e.g. PowerShell, Python, UNIX Shell Scripting) Experience with Operating System hardening practices as well as methodologies for templating deployments from a set of standardized images Experience with Linux and Windows systems engineering principles Enterprise wide implementation of backup and recovery solutions to deliver data resiliency Supporting the migration of applications to public cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure) and / or the securing of public cloud providers for application service delivery Understanding and engineering experience with system monitoring, alerting and observability tools (Elastic, Dynatrace, etc) This position is a hybrid role that involves working a minimum of 10 days per month in the office. We know flexibility is important to our employees and their families, and we will continue to offer flexibility in this flex office/home role. Internal candidates encouraged to apply regardless of location. Preferred locations for this role include: Madison, WI; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Seattle, WA; Nashville, TN; Minneapolis, MN #LI-Hybrid Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service. Solid knowledge and understanding of software engineering architectures, system/software designs, and system deployments. Solid knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering and Computer Science. Solid knowledge and understanding of multiple IT subject areas (e.g. development, configuration, deployment, testing, configuration, deployment, monitoring etc.). Solid knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies and application development methodologies. Solid knowledge and understanding of System Administration (configurations, installations, patch management, server maintenance, etc.) and Network Management (firewalls, proxies, IP management, routing, DNS). Demonstrated experience establishing, using and supporting integration and communication protocols between applications, databases, and technology platforms. Must have a good understanding of API’s and be able to contribute in developing API in choice of programming. Travel Requirements This position requires travel up to 10% of the time. We will consider hiring at the Lead Engineer level with the right qualifications, to be assessed during the interview process. Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks. Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions. Our policy restricts consideration of applicants needing employment sponsorship (visa) to specialty occupations. Sponsorship will not be considered for this position. We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits. We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above. Skills can be used in many different ways, and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture. We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply! #LI-WP1

Job Overview

  • Date Posted:
    June 7, 2023
  • Location:
    Hybrid remote in Madison, WI 53715
  • Job Title:
    Platform Engineer - Cloud Services (Hybrid)
  • Salary Range:
    From $90,200 a year