DevOps Reliability Engineer

: Staff Reliability Engineer - IE07KE We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals - and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. The Hartford's Group Benefits IT Team is seeking a highly motivated, experienced IT professional who is responsible for leading engineering teams to successfully drive the transformation of our application landscape. This is a technical leadership role, that will be part of an GB Devops tech enablement team and partner with value streams to drive and achieve outcomes on a large transformational program. The Solutions build should be based on Hartford's architectural standards, business requirements, technology roadmaps and industry trends. Successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate leadership skills, excellent partnership, solid technical acumen, experience in delivering quality technical solutions as well as setting and executing on a strategic technical vision to ensure the systems are stable, performant, and secure. :

• Identifies, drives and leads in the implementation of standards and best practices on how we deploy applications in AWS. Designs reusable architectures and services that can be leveraged by agile teams across the program to improve development velocity.
• Ability to design and implement new software architecture patterns in Cloud that are scalable, secure and cost efficient, adhering industry standards such as multi region support with fault tolerant and data replication strategies.
• Develops Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation templates and Terraform, YAML files, build specifications, and Python Lambda functions to have a completely automated build and release process for all AWS resource infrastructure and code artifacts.
• Highly knowledgeable with hands on experience of Amazon Web Services including but not limited to Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Service Catalog.
• Hands-on DevOps and CI/CD tool chains ( GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, K8s etc.)
• Implements proactive monitoring and observability to predict and detect abnormal system behaviors, with timely alerts avoiding system impacts.
• Executes on Production Engineering process and practices such as incident management, root cause analysis and problem solving..
• Mentor junior Cloud and Software Engineers.
• Present new ideas to leadership and present on topics to improve the learning of others.
• Communicate clearly and professionally both in speech and in writing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Math, or any Engineering
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Java and J2EE technologies, such as, Java Web Services, JMS, JSP, XML, JSON, JDBC, etc. Along with experience with Web Services (SOAP and Rest) using Java Springboot.
• 4+ years software architecture and systems engineering design experience
• Infrastructure as Code experience, like CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, etc.
• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Codebuild, Jenkins, Rally, SonarQube, checkmarx,etc.
• Nice to have client-side scripting knowledge. Skills on Angular, Node express, Postgres are good to have.
• Good knowledge on windows and linux are added advantage
• Good knowledge on observability tool sets.
• Strong software development knowledge
• Strong technical knowledge of AWS relating to application development.
• Ability to communicate at all levels within an organization and influence leadership.
• Proven ability to work with cross functional teams and translate requirements between business, project management and technical projects or programs.

Must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship Compensation The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is: $126,160 - $189,240 Equal Opportunity Employer/Females/Minorities/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/Age