DevOps Architect
Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts
Overview
A career with us means you’ll help our customers secure their future and protect the ones they love. It also means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable, and ethical business.
Our culture embodies the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. By valuing people for who they are, how they think, and what they bring to the table, we’ve become a better, more innovative company.
We invite you to explore the possibilities.
What our employees say
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
Since 1851, MassMutual’s commitment has always been to help people protect their families, support their communities, and help one another. This is why we want to inspire people to Live Mutual. We are people helping people.
A career with us means you will work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable and ethical business. We seek and value unique and varied perspectives and experiences because we believe we are stronger when all voices are heard. We invite you to bring your bright, innovative ideas to MassMutual as we continue to help millions of Americans rely on each other.
Together, we are stronger
The MassMutual Data Science team in the Enterprise Technology and Experience organization is seeking an outstanding Enterprise Architect-applications to join our team. The enterprise architect for applications will be responsible for evaluating and benchmarking new application frameworks, platforms and technologies enabling MassMutual to make high impact, long-term decisions around design, development and deployment of software applications supporting business capabilities at MassMutual. Additionally, this architect will be responsible for defining the software development standards and best practices for high quality, resilient and scalable software applications . This includes reference architectures, road maps, patterns and template code projects. This application architect role will focus on the digital experience which includes web and mobile applications and platforms, content management, responsive/adaptive designs and related technology stacks . This is a critical strategic architecture role to help drive digital transformation and create a competitive advantage for the company
Position Summary
The DevOPs CD Architect will be responsible for the overall continuous deployment strategy. DevOPs architecture role is a combination of both hands-on and strategic vision around devops deployment working closely with key stakeholders across the company. A successful candidate will understand the complete software/dev lifecycle and will have proven track record on developing complete CD solutions that will have a high positive impact across a larger organization. Leveraging industry standard tools in both cloud and bare-metal / on-prem solutions.:
- Hands on experience on planning, building and running a complete CI/CD pipeline on both cloud and baremetal/in-house.
- Collect technical requirements from stakeholders across the company and help build a complete CI/CD strategy and objectives.
- Implement and POC and demo software to be used in the CD pipeline
- Setup a Reference/Demo cloud and POC software and pipeline tools
- Develop standards and practices for deployments and create re-useable interfaces for consumers.
- Following market trends and DevOPs movements and apply models of continuous improvement to deployment and tooling
- Setting up source repositories, artifact repositories and ORG artifact stores.
- Write and implement k8s setups, best practices and cloud native k8s deploys.
- Setup a standard for configuration management solution(s).
Skills/Technologies
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Github Actions
- GitOps
- Artifactory
- Ansible
- Cloud Platform (AWS/Azure)
- Kubernetes
- Scripting (Python, Ruby. PERL, etc.)
What great looks like in this role
The Enterprise Architect will be part of MassMutual’s team whose vision is to build an industry leading EA function that creates alignment between technology and business strategy. The EA will have an opportunity to guide the process of planning and designing capabilities to maximize the value of IT and enable the company to make high impact, long-term decisions. This will be accomplished through architecture strategies, blueprints and road maps that standardize technology stacks and create engineering speed and agility through the innovative use of data science, data analytics, cloud and API’s. The EA will work with a team that embrace diversity in all of its forms, respect and have fun.
Requirements
- 10+ years experience working with CI/CD toolchains with expert level knowledge of the standard tools (ansible, chef, puppet, terraform, CloudFormation, packer).
- Expert level on Artifact management (antifactory, nexus, inhouse or other)
- Moderate knowledge on development workflows (gitflow, githubflow, trunk)
- Moderate knowledge on baremetal or base cloud deploy tools (crowbar, cobbler, terraform, vagrant)
- Moderate knowledge of the basic cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Solid understanding of the basic principles of devops, CI/CD, agile and lean philosophies
- Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to project development teams or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 5+ years experience with container technologies (docker, k8s, swarm)
- Track record of designing and implementing Cd toolchains
- Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to technical teams
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field required (M.S. or Ph.D. preferred) or relevant experience.
- Authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future
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MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment.
Salary Range: $137,800.00-$180,800.00
Hiring Process
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Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure—it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to embrace diversity in every sense, focusing on building a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1250 annual wellness wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Full benefits details can be found here.
- In addition to generous vacation time, paid holidays, and flexible holidays, MassMutual offers 'take care' time to take care of yourself or someone you love—whether for physical illness or mental health.
- Medical and dental insurance
- Life, disability short-term and long-term insurance
- Well-being wallet: $1,250 per year for a wide range of qualifying wellness expenses
- Well-being support: Mindfulness, nutrition, fitness
- Personalized mental health solutions
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement programs
- Competitive salary and bonuses
- 401(k): Up to 10% total benefit, consisting of a 5% company match and a 5% annual contribution
- Educational assistance program
- Childcare support
- Financial counseling
- Caregiver Leave (up to 320 hours)
- Maternity Leave (a total of 18 weeks, 10 maternity + 8 parental)
- Parental Leave (8 weeks for all parents, birth or adoption, continuous or intermittent)
- Bereavement Leave: Up to 15 days to mourn the loss of a loved one, and you define 'loved one'
- Matching Gift: 100% match on employees’ charitable contributions to non-profits up to $5,000
- Volunteering: Three paid days for employees to volunteer with eligible nonprofits of their choice
- Matching time: MassMutual Foundation awards dollars to organizations for which employees volunteer
- Qualified Commuter Program through which eligible employees can pay qualified workplace commuting expenses with before-tax dollars
- Commuter wallet option for employees based at Boston and NYC campuses
Why MassMutual?
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How we work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Where we work
Springfield Office
1295 State Street,
Springfield, MA
Boston Office
10 Fan Pier Blvd,
Boston, MA
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New York, NY
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