Hybrid Principal Engineer – Azure Cloud Platform

at Liberty National Life Insurance Company

• Job title: Principal Engineer – Azure Cloud Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $136,875 - $200,750 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Linux, Splunk, VMware
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Addison, United States

About the role

• Principal Engineer position leading infrastructure design and integrations for National Life Insurance Company. Collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to drive continuous improvement in infrastructure ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• The Principal Engineer position partners with business and technical stakeholders to lead infrastructure design and integrations.
• This individual in this position has a proven track record of driving continuous improvement in all facets of infrastructure ecosystems.
• This position will lead infrastructure teams in the delivery of the infrastructure technologies and services.
• Effective ability to communicate, a positive attitude, and a proven track record of serving in a technical leadership role are key qualifications.
• This role is a senior technical leadership position and member of the National Life Group IT Shared Services team.
• You will represent the infrastructure team in project initiatives, architecture design, and be a champion of operational excellence while collaborating across a vibrant technical community.
• You’re looking for an inquisitive individual with a passion for continuous learning, attention to detail, and a drive to follow-through.
• This role can be located in Dallas (Addison), TX; Montpelier, VT.
• This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferred in Computer Science; or relevant work experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience with at least 4 years in a technical team leadership role.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge working in public cloud technologies and solutions (Azure Preferred)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications in production environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge of platform architectures and technologies
• Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively with others
• Show up consistently with a positive attitude
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority.
• Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies.
• Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations.
• Certifications in Azure are highly desirable
• Experience with OpenAI and AI Technologies are highly desirable
• Broad engineering awareness of the following technical domains and expert technical expertise in at least two of the following areas –
• Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.)
• Public Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Networking (CDN, SD Wan, Load Balancing, WAF, etc.)
• Monitoring & Instrumentation (New Relic, Splunk, Zenoss, etc.)
• Systems Administration (Windows, Linux, Active Directory, SCCM, etc.)
• Automation Technologies (CI/CD, Infrastructure-As-Code, etc.)

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!