Cloud Engineer III

Northwestern Mutual

Cloud Engineer III on Cloud Foundations at Northwestern Mutual, building and running secure, reliable cloud platform capabilities while improving platform consistency across AWS and Azure.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeMilwaukee • New York, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $98,320 - $147,480 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerFirewallsJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Demonstrate technical leadership within the team
Proficiency in DevOps and Agile principles
Apply engineering standard methodologies to analyze and develop software solutions
Leverages established coding standards, best practices, and automation capabilities to develop solutions to support our users
Identify technical problems and develop software solutions and automation capabilities
Have the technical skill to adequately review the software code developed in the project
Strive for continuous improvement on all aspects within the team and build continuous integration and continuous development pipeline (CI/CD)

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
2-4 years of working experience
3+ years of professional IT experience
Experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred)
Experience with containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes – CKA Preferred)
3+ years' experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
3+ years' experience with networking and Linux based platforms
3+ years' experience with modern programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Experience working with DevOps, CICD, GitOps, Agile methodologies
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation and how to apply it with services such as Gitlab CI, Jenkins, CodePipeline, or Circle CI
Understanding of certificates, firewalls, vulnerability management, authentication, and authorization
Understanding of Unit Testing
Experience with Linux and Windows. Comfortable with CLI
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Problem solver who enjoys learning on the job and thinking outside of the box.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsAgileCI/CDPythonJavaScriptTerraformCloudFormationDockerKubernetesLinux

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcontinuous improvementproblem solvingcommunication

Certifications

AWS CertificationDocker CertificationKubernetes CertificationCKA Certification