Lead Cloud Engineer (Flex Home/Office) - Military Veterans

This position will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud and legacy on-prem solutions with a focus on application operations and DevOps practices. This role requires a strong background in application development and operations, with specific expertise in Windows Server administration, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and GitLab. The ideal candidate will drive continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes, ensuring scalable, efficient, and secure cloud environments.

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Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Responsibilities:

• You will provide expertise in project initial phases including resource estimation, technology selection, and proof of concepts.
• You will design, develop, and maintain cloud solutions with a focus on software-defined infrastructure.
• You will communicate system design and development plans to the team at the appropriate level.
• You will collaborate with others to validate complex design decisions and mitigate high-risk features or technical challenges.
• You will collaborate with engineering and operations teams to enhance software reliability.
• You will troubleshoot complex issues across tools, processes, and infrastructure.
• You will recommend tools and practices to boost development and operations efficiency and reliability.
• You will manage service configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• You will document design decisions, code modules, and performance metrics as per standards.
• You will mentor staff, conduct development reviews, and define/lead testing phases.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems.
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical information.
• Demonstrated experience developing different solution-delivery and design approaches and solutions to customers.
• Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance to less experienced staff.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development and design standards and methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC).
• Solid knowledge and understanding of application architecture and design alternatives.
• Solid Knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of AWS, and containerized applications.
• EC2 VM administration is a bonus.
• Administration of Windows server, using Powershell.
• Proficiency with Gitlab pipelines, Ansible, Maven.

In this flex office/home role, you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month from one of the following office locations: Madison, WI 53783; Boston, MA 02110; Denver, CO 80112; Eden Prairie, MN 55343; Keene, NH 03431; St. Joseph, MO 64507; Phoenix, AZ 85034

Internal candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of location and will be considered based upon the needs of the role.

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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!

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.