American Family Insurance

Lead DevOps Engineer

American Family Insurance

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: MadisonMassachusettsWisconsinUnited 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