Sr. DevEx Engineer

Providing for loved ones, planning rewarding retirements, saving enough for whatever lies ahead – our policyholders count on us to be there when it matters most. It’s a big ask, but it’s one that we have the power to deliver when we work together. We collaborate and innovate – pushing one another to transform not just Pacific Life, but the entire industry for the better. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. Pacific Life is more than a job, it’s a career with purpose. It’s a career where you have the support, balance, and resources to make a positive impact on the future – including your own.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and operate our internal development platform and solutions that provides developers and engineers with standardized and reliable tools, frameworks and infrastructure that facilitate development, testing and deployment processes.

• Provide guidance, shared software engineering best practices to promote consistency in SDLC workflow

• Provide and build solution for developer self-service to enhance and empower developer workflow and minimize handoff and friction

• Enforce enterprise-wide development workflow standards to ensure consistency, efficiency, and best practices across all projects through automated gating process and configuration as code

• Provide clear and comprehensive documentation for internal standards related to coding practices, APIs, libraries and frameworks as needed in development practices

• Implement secure coding practices, conduct regular security assessments and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Enhance Developer Tooling by providing and managing a suite of developer tools, including IDEs, to streamline development process and improve productivity.

• Deliver developer training to support IDP and SDLC standards adoption, ensuring developers are up to date with the latest technologies and best practices.

• Build bespoke internal tools as necessary to enhance or establish integration and orchestration between different services of the internal development platform as needed.

• Active participants in the internal developer community to foster a strong developer community within the company in order to promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mutual support.

• Develop and refine onboarding process to minimize the time required for new developers to become fully productive.

• Regularly gather and act on feedback to continuously improve developer experience and satisfaction.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on developer experience and tooling.

• Hands-on experience with delivery services technology such as Git, Artifactory, Azure DevOps, or similar tooling.

• Demonstrated adherence to software engineering best practices, such as clean code principles, TDD and BDD framework, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, software engineering patterns and advanced debugging techniques.

• Proficiency in using automation and configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef to streamline operations and ensure consistency.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build consensus across different teams and stakeholders.

• Ability to write clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation.

• Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization about technical strategy in clear, concise, understandable terms appropriate to the audience technical understanding and expertise.

Skills Desired

• Strong development skills in at least 1 modern languages including but not limited to Python, Golang, C#, Javascript/React framework.

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge in secure coding and application security, such as threat modeling, security testing, authentication/authorization, security logging/monitoring and incident response.

• Automation mindset with strong hands-on experience with 1 of these tools: PowerShell, Bash, Makefile.

• hands-on experience with API first design, development and support

• Well versed in unit and integration testing – framework, test code etc.

• Pair programming experience and proven ability to lead and mentor other software engineers.

• Advanced knowledge of Python and its frameworks (at least 2).

• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Proficiency in using cloud platforms in design, deploy and managescalable and r