
Lead DevOps Engineer
American Family Insurance
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Madison • Massachusetts • Wisconsin • United States
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Salary
💰 $131,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the DevOps strategy and execution for Enterprise Payments, supporting both on-premises and cloud environments
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and security teams to design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines
- Champion automation initiatives to streamline deployment, monitoring, and maintenance processes
- Ensure the security and compliance of payment systems, implementing best practices for access control, vulnerability management, and data protection
- Guide and mentor team members, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across application, infrastructure, and integration layers
- Monitor system performance, proactively identifying opportunities for optimization and cost efficiency
- Maintain documentation and knowledge sharing for operational procedures, architecture, and incident response
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, recommending improvements to enhance reliability and scalability
- Develop, maintain, and enforce GitLab branching strategies to ensure efficient and organized code development workflows
- Execute and oversee code merges in GitLab, ensuring code quality, resolving conflicts, and facilitating smooth integration across development teams
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles
- Proven expertise in both on-premises and cloud (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure) environments
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Github), automation frameworks, and infrastructure as code (Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible)
- Solid understanding of application security, compliance, and risk management
- Demonstrated leadership skills with experience mentoring and guiding technical teams
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills
- Experience supporting payment or financial systems is a plus.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringCI/CDautomation frameworksinfrastructure as codeapplication securityvulnerability managementdata protectiontroubleshootingoptimization
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcontinuous learninganalytical skillscommunication skills