Kubernetes Cloud Engineer
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
- As a Cloud Engineer of the Cloud Platform team, you will play a crucial role in architecting and implementing fully automated (IAAC/Terraform), secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solutions. The Cloud Engineer will be part of a highly technical and cross-functional team and work closely with cloud/DevOps engineers, platform delivery lead, solution architects, enterprise architects, and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate for this role is a self-starter who can work independently with minimal oversight, has an agile/DevOps mindset, is an SME in building cloud products, and has a passion to learn.
Objectives and Responsibilities
- Work closely with solution architects, cloud engineers and provide support to product manager, ensuring designs align with technical and business direction across the company
- Write clean, high-performance, well-tested infrastructure code (Terraform - Must have) with a focus on reusability and automation (i.e. Shell, Python, GoLang, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8 years in architecting and implementing fully automated (IAAC/Terraform), secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solution.
- 3+ Years of experience working hands on with AWS/AZURE cloud
- AWS /Azure certification e.g., Solution Architect, Developer, Administrator, Security, DevOps
- Experience with network infrastructure skills (e.g. setting up and managing firewalls, WAFs, network segregation, network sharing, VPNs and network ACLs)
- Experience with DevOps concepts, tools (containers, (CI/CD - Github, Github Action, Jenkins, Artifactory, Helm), Chef, Ansible, Puppet etc.) and emerging technologies
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Microservices architecture
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Able to thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional environment
- Work collaboratively with Cloud/DevOps developers, platform delivery lead, solution architects, enterprise architects to define and develop secure, highly scalable enterprise cloud products
- Explore and recommend new technologies/services for implementing application patterns. Articulate the advantages of various solution options
- Provide recommendations on architectural changes in order to improve efficiency, reliability and performance and to reduce cost
- Support platform delivery lead on the prioritization of the product backlog, refining product roadmap, reporting, KPIs & releases
- Actively participate and contribute on all sprint ceremonies (daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint retro, sprint demo and backlog grooming)
- Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to solve technical and design problems
- Conduct and oversee design & code reviews
- Define platform software engineering standards and ensure compliance
Preferred Qualifications :
- CKA Certification - Certified Kubernetes Administrator or CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- Experience with migration projects (On-premise-to-Cloud)
Technical Design, Development & Problem Solving
- Technical leader with specialized skills/knowledge, that is recognized across the organization for their expertise and technical leadership
- Research new ways of developing complex solutions partnering with EA; be able to freely challenge solutions
- Publishes articles or demo's technical advancements in their area to their team and the larger organization
- Help others troubleshoot and resolve complex issues
Execution & Delivery
- Provide technical leadership for complex, long term initiatives
- Provide communication to leadership on progress & gaps
- Provide authoritative expertise to others by advising on prioritization, planning, and execution of projects within the subdomain
Software Engineering Excellence
- Collaborate with colleagues, share ideas, and contribute to the overall success of the group by enforcing software engineering standards
- Leads research and initiatives pushing the boundaries for solutions solving technical problems
- Leads the team and coaches other members on creating efficient and high performing frameworks
- Leads and implements best practices for continuous delivery and continuous integration frameworks
Leadership
- Mentor all team members regardless of their level
- Develop collaborative partnerships with internal partners
- Contribute material time to developing junior and mid-level team members
- Leads the team on technical decisions and helps drive other team members towards solutions
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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
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
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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
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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.
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