Responsible for designing and building Infrastructure-as-Code backup and storage solutions, mentoring junior engineers, and improving CI/CD processes.
What's the role?
Northwestern Mutual is seeking a dedicated and hard-working Systems Software Engineer who is passionate about continuous learning and furthering their expertise with data protection and block, file, and object storage technologies. You will be responsible for the design and build of Infrastructure-as-Code code backup and storage solutions in both cloud and on-premise environments.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Qualifications
LI-Hybrid/Remote
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$102,060.00
Pay Range - End:
$189,540.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
210 - Structure 110: 112,280.00 USD - 208,520.00 USD 210 - Structure 115: 117,390.00 USD - 218,010.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Job Posting End Date:
09/29/2025
The timeline for this job posting may be shortened or extended based on organizational needs.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Nor t hwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Northwestern Mutual is seeking a dedicated and hard-working Systems Software Engineer who is passionate about continuous learning and furthering their expertise with data protection and block, file, and object storage technologies. You will be responsible for the design and build of Infrastructure-as-Code code backup and storage solutions in both cloud and on-premise environments.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- 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)
- Support third party vendor backup software (cloud and on-premises), enterprise SAN and NAS platforms, and object storage (cloud and on-premises)
- Apply automation and scripting solutions to drive towards zero-touch infrastructure management, and infrastructure as code
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
- At least 4 years of working experience
- 5+ years of professional IT experience
- 3+ 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 (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
- Understanding of certificates, firewalls, vulnerability management, authentication, and authorization
- Experience with Unit Testing
- Experience with Linux and Windows. Understanding how to install, configure and manage. Very comfortable with CLI
- Experience with enterprise SAN, NAS, and backup software
LI-Hybrid/Remote
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$102,060.00
Pay Range - End:
$189,540.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
210 - Structure 110: 112,280.00 USD - 208,520.00 USD 210 - Structure 115: 117,390.00 USD - 218,010.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Job Posting End Date:
09/29/2025
The timeline for this job posting may be shortened or extended based on organizational needs.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Nor t hwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
Top Skills
AWS
Circle Ci
CloudFormation
Codepipeline
Docker
Gitlab Ci
JavaScript
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform
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