About the role

  • Lead Resiliency Engineer focusing on enhancing reliability and availability of technology platforms at American Family Insurance. Mentor teams and implement engineering practices for seamless operations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team in implementing solutions to enhance overall resiliency.
  • Help define, document, and champion comprehensive resiliency engineering principles and practices tailored to the organization’s environment.
  • Participate in the selection and implementation of tools for monitoring, alerting, chaos engineering, and automated recovery.
  • Guide the analysis of ITSM workflows (incident, change, problem) to identify and prioritize high-impact automation opportunities.
  • Architect and direct the development of automation solutions leveraging ITSM tools and integrating with other enterprise systems.
  • Ensure the deployment and integration of automated workflows, maintaining seamless data flow and effective reporting.
  • Establish and monitor metrics to track the effectiveness of resiliency and automation initiatives.
  • Collaborate with Enterprise DevOps, Integration Platform DevOps, and other teams to review CI/CD pipelines, identify bottlenecks, and drive improvements.
  • Participate in the development of a comprehensive automation strategy encompassing build, test, security scanning, and deployment processes to improve system resiliency.
  • Participate in defining and standardizing operating environments and infrastructure configurations, partnering with architecture teams to implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks.
  • Implement and manage automated testing and rollback mechanisms for infrastructure and application changes.
  • Lead the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of tools, systems, and software solutions to support resiliency objectives.
  • Direct incident triage efforts, determining scope, urgency, and potential impact, and coordinate effective response and recovery.
  • Lead technology evaluations and re-engineering activities to support strategic direction and continuous improvement.
  • Transform business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring alignment with resiliency and automation goals.
  • Foster cross-functional coordination and ensure a partnership-focused approach to balancing service priorities with business needs, managing risk-based exceptions as necessary.

Requirements

  • Experience in designing fault-tolerant architectures, including automated failover, multi-region redundancy, and graceful degradation strategies enabled by Chaos engineering.
  • Deep understanding of complex distributed systems, such as microservices orchestration, service meshes, and eventual consistency models.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering customer-driven solutions, support, or service in high-availability environments.
  • Extensive knowledge of software engineering architectures, system/software design, and system deployments.
  • Proven experience across multiple IT domains, including development, testing, configuration, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies and application development methodologies.
  • Demonstrated experience in system administration activities (configuration, installations, patch management, server maintenance) and network management (firewalls, proxies, IP management, routing, DNS).
  • Experience in the utilization and support of integration and communication protocols between applications, databases, and technology platforms.
  • Solid foundation in building scalable frameworks and providing specifications for APIs that support enterprise fulfillment processes.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
  • Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams, driving continuous improvement and innovation in resiliency engineering.

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits
  • competitive 401(k) contribution
  • pension plan
  • annual incentive
  • 9 paid holidays
  • paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
  • student loan repayment program
  • paid-family leave

Job title

Lead Resiliency Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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