Director of DevOps and SRE Engineering

Empower • Overland Park, KS

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About The Position

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them. Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT. The Director of DevOps will guide our adoption of infrastructure-as-code pipelines and expand our EKS-based microservice platform across the Empower enterprise. You will enable autonomous, cross-functional teams to be more productive, strengthen security with automated controls, and continuously improve the scalability and observability of our systems. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with building and leading high-performing engineering teams in support of an organization committed to diversity and inclusion, community, and long-term success.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent STEM, from an accredited college or university.
• 10+ years of AWS experience, including designing, building, and operating large-scale applications.
• 6+ years of experience managing a DevOps/SRE or Engineering organization, with a passion for mentoring and leading engineers.
• Expertise building fully automated infrastructure, preferably using AWS, EKS, GitLab, and Terraform.
• Experience setting up observability tools (SRE) and driving adoption with development teams.
• Software engineering background.
• Experience working with, operating, and deploying CI/CD and IaC pipelines.
• Expertise with Istio and AWS IAM.
• Experience supporting data platforms and tools such as Spark, EMR, and SageMaker.
• Ability to work cooperatively and effectively across organizations and all levels of leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• AWS certifications.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• A background in retirement, finance, or the insurance industry.
• AWS Solutions or Developer Certification

Responsibilities

• Build, grow, and manage high-performing engineering teams, and participate in roadmaps, vision, and strategic planning.
• Partner with developers, quality engineers, security engineers, data engineers, DBAs, and product managers to deliver Infrastructure, Security, and Operation as Code.
• Lead adoption and expansion of CI/CD and IaC pipelines to support secure, scalable application delivery.
• Define and instrument end to end observability monitors, alerts and practices.
• Develop recovery and incident run books.
• Define, validate and instrument SLO and SLI across platform services.
• Provide engineering leadership and best practices including code reviews and platform and SDLC practices
• Foster strong working relationships across Engineering and the broader business.
• Communicate effectively with strong verbal and written skills, keeping leadership informed and helping create organizational goals.
• Remove technical obstacles, enhance team processes, and drive resolutions for complex issues.
• Mentor, coach, and support individuals through 1:1s and career development.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director