Sr. Staff Software Engineer (DevSecOps)

Senior Staff Software Engineer - IE07HE

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The Hartford’s HIMCO Corp IT Team is seeking a highly motivated, experienced IT professional who is responsible for leading engineering teams to successfully drive the transformation of our application landscape. 

This is a technical leadership role, that will be part of an HIMCO Corp IT RE Squad team and partner with value streams to drive and achieve outcomes on a large transformational program. The Solutions build should be based on Hartford’s architectural standards, business requirements, technology roadmaps and industry trends.

Successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate leadership skills, excellent partnership, solid technical acumen, experience in delivering quality technical solutions as well as setting and executing on a strategic technical vision to ensure the systems are stable, performant, and secure.

Job Description:

• Identifies, drives and leads in the implementation of standards and best practices on how we deploy applications in AWS. Designs reusable architectures and services that can be leveraged by agile teams across the program to improve development velocity.

• Hands-on DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (GitHub, Jenkins, Docker etc.)

• Develops Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation templates and Terraform, YAML files, build specifications, and Python Lambda functions to have a completely automated build and release process for all AWS resource infrastructure and code artifacts.

• Ability to design and implement new software architecture patterns in Cloud that are scalable, secure and cost efficient, adhering industry standards such as multi region support with fault tolerant and data replication strategies.

• Highly knowledgeable with hands on experience of Amazon Web Services including but not limited to Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Service Catalog.

• Implements proactive monitoring and observability to predict and detect abnormal system behaviors, with timely alerts avoiding system impacts.

• Executes on Production Engineering process and practices such as incident management, root cause analysis and problem solving..

• Mentor junior DevSecOps, Cloud and Software Engineers.

• Present new ideas to leadership and present on topics to improve the learning of others.

• Communicate clearly and professionally both in speech and in writing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Math, or any Engineering

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Java and J2EE technologies, such as, Java Web Services, JMS, JSP, XML, JSON, JDBC,  etc. Along with experience with Web Services (SOAP and Rest) using Java Springboot.

• 4+ years software architecture and systems engineering design experience

• Infrastructure as Code experience, like CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, etc.

• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Codebuild, Jenkins, Rally, SonarQube, checkmarx,etc.

• Nice to have client-side scripting knowledge. Skills on Angular, Node express, Postgres are good to have.

• Good knowledge on windows and linux are added advantage

• Good knowledge on observability tool sets.

• Strong software development knowledge

• Strong technical knowledge of AWS relating to application development.

• Ability to communicate at all levels within an organization and influence leadership.

• Proven ability to work with cross functional teams and translate requirements between business, project management and technical projects or programs.

Must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship
 

This role will have a Hybrid work arrangement, with the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).

As a condition of your employment for HIMCO, you will be required to affirm to HIMCO’s Code of Ethics and understand that you will be required to comply with the disclosure of accounts, holdings and pre-clearance of trades for the accounts of you and your household family members as more fully described in the Code of Ethics Key Points.  If you will be deemed to be a “Covered Associate” under HIMCO’s Pay to Play Policy, you will also need to disclose all political contributions that you have given within the past 2