Senior Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure, Thrivent Asset Management

Thrivent•Minneapolis, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Engineer, you will be a technical expert in cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code practices, environment operations, and monitoring capabilities to support business-critical digital platforms. These platforms include AWS-hosted services, Adobe Experience Manager cloud services, Jenkins-based automation, Terraform-managed infrastructure, and SFTP/File processing with related data integrations. You will determine specifications, plan, design, and develop business-critical technology solutions using appropriate engineering processes, either individually or in collaboration with the data infrastructure and digital experience teams. This Senior Engineer possesses engineering technology expertise in AWS and Adobe Experience Manager cloud services.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
7+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or related technology roles.
Strong AWS administration experience.
Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as Code experience.
Experience with Jenkins or comparable CI/CD automation platforms.
Working knowledge of cloud networking, DNS, certificates, IAM, WAF, security groups, and access management.
Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures including experience with Git-based source control and deployment workflows.
Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability
Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects
Expert knowledge/experience with querying databases for complex data lookup/update
Perform code reviews with associate team members.

Nice To Haves

Scripting or automation experience using PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar tools.
Adobe Experience Manager or AEM as a Cloud Service experience.
SQL Server, Windows Server, or database infrastructure support experience.
SFTP administration and vendor file integration experience.
Snowflake, API integration, or data platform experience.
Experience supporting financial services, investment data, regulatory content, fund/ETF data, or marketing technology platforms.
AWS certification, HashiCorp Terraform certification, or comparable cloud/platform credentials.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers.
Support cloud environment provisioning, cleanup, and cost optimization.
Manage AWS services including S3, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront, EC2, VPCs, Security Groups, WAF, ACM, load balancers, networking, certificates, DNS in order to meet/exceed the teams expectations for site stability, scalability, resilience, etc.
Shares new ideas and techniques with team, stay up to date with AEM and AWS related enhancements and Dev/Ops practices.
Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team.
Participate in product planning and implementation.
Helps team to understand and decompose work.
Contribute to develop engineering practices, templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.
Ensure cloud resources are secure, documented, recoverable and aligned with operational standards.
Lead the continued implementation and operationalization of Terraform across AWS and related infrastructure.
Support Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service environments, Cloud Manager pipelines, content deployment processes, package movement, and environment synchronization.
Partner with engineering and data teams to evaluate additional infrastructure automation opportunities.
Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software.
Use data to measure progress.
Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
Administer and improve Jenkins jobs and automation workflows.
Support cloud environment access control and infrastructure governance.
Maintain source control practices using Git/Bitbucket/GitHub.
Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.
Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors.
Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor.
Provide operational support for production and non-production environments.
Troubleshoot platform outages, failed jobs, data load issues, deployment failures, access issues, and infrastructure incidents.
Perform root-cause analysis and implement sustainable fixes.
Improve monitoring, alerting, runbooks, dashboards, and operational reporting.
Support incident response, vendor escalations, and recurring production support needs.
Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market.
Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.
Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.
Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.