Principal Engineer, Cloud Engineering

Come join one of America’s fastest-growing insurance companies. Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures.

Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.

We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values: Do good. Be good. Make good.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Principal Engineer position partners with business and technical stakeholders to lead infrastructure design and integrations. This individual in this position has a proven track record of driving continuous improvement in all facets of infrastructure ecosystems. This position will lead infrastructure teams in the delivery of the infrastructure technologies and services. Effective ability to communicate, a positive attitude, and a proven track record of serving in a technical leadership role are key qualifications.

This role is a senior technical leadership position and member of the National Life Group IT Shared Services team. You will represent the infrastructure team in project initiatives, architecture design, and be a champion of operational excellence while collaborating across a vibrant technical community. We’re looking for an inquisitive individual with a passion for continuous learning, attention to detail, and a drive to follow-through. This role can be located in Dallas (Addison), TX; Montpelier, VT

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Infrastructure Delivery

• You will lead development and enhancement of automation of cloud enablement tools
• You will drive implementation of the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption
• You will lead delivery of project support as a subject matter expert in infrastructure technologies
• You will help lead incident resolution and resolution of business issues
• You possess the ability to communicate effectively with an appropriate level of detail to all levels within the company
• You will lead identifying and managing capacity, performance, and risk
• You will adhere to and promote firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and are familiar with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations

Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy

• You will drive innovation and encourage others to remain current on emerging technologies and development trends
• You will lead the delivery of collaborative cloud solution architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices
• You will lead development, design, and implementation of platform architectures that will support key software development and deployment processes
• You will lead and review cloud-native and hybrid solution architectures

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferred in Computer Science; or relevant work experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience with at least 4 years in a technical team leadership role.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge working in public cloud technologies and solutions (Azure Preferred)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications in production environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge of platform architectures and technologies
• Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively with others
• Show up consistently with a positive attitude
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority.
• Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies.
• Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations.
• Certifications in Azure are highly desirable
• Experience with OpenAI and AI Technologies are highly desirable
• Broad engineering awareness of the following technical domains and expert technical expertise in at least two of the following areas –
  • Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.)
  • Public Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.)
  • Networking (CDN, SD Wan, Load Balancing, WAF, etc.)
  • Monitoring & Instrumentation (New Relic, Splunk, Zenoss, etc.)
  • Systems Administration (Windows, Linux, Active Directory, SCCM, etc.)
  • Automation Technologies (CI/CD, Infrastructure-As-Code, etc.)

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Base Pay Range. The base pay range for this position is the range National Life reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors, including: prior experience and job-related knowledge; education, training and certificates; current business needs; and market factors. The final salary or hourly wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances.

Additional Compensation and Benefits. The total compensation package for this position may also include a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in National Life’s discretionary annual incentive programs, subject to the rules governing such programs. If hired, the employee will be in an "at-will position" and National Life reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

National Life is accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis and the role remains open until filled.

Salary Pay Range$133,125—$195,250 USD

National Life Group® is a trade name of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, VT – founded in 1848, Life Insurance Company of the Southwest, Addison, TX – chartered in 1955, and their affiliates. Each company of National Life Group is solely responsible for its own financial condition and contractual obligations. Life Insurance Company of the Southwest is not an authorized insurer in New York and does not conduct insurance business in New York. Equity Services, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, is a Broker/Dealer and Registered Investment Adviser affiliate of National Life Insurance Company. All other entities are independent of the companies of National Life Group.

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