Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering

Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering

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

Key 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

Job Requirements

• 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.)

The base compensation range represents the low and high end of the range for this position. Actual compensation will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to qualifications, skills, competencies, location, and experience. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees.

Other rewards may include an annual bonus, quarterly bonuses, commissions, and other long-term incentive compensation, depending on the position.  National Life offers a competitive total rewa