Cloud DataOps Engineer / XOps (Hybrid)

At American Family Insurance, we believe people are an organization's most valuable asset, and their ideas and experiences matter. From our CEO to our agency force, we're committed to growing a diverse and inclusive culture that empowers innovation that will inspire, protect, and restore our customers' dreams in ways never imagined.

American Family Insurance is driven by our customers and employees. That's why we provide more than just a job - we provide opportunity. Whether you're already part of our team in search of a new challenge or new to our company and ready for what's next, you're in the right place. Every dream is a journey that starts with a single step. Start your journey right here. Join our team. Bring your dreams.

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location.

Candidates are passionate about designing and developing in a fast-paced, agile, small-team environment. Engineers work to build out ML integrations and deployment automation pipelines and work closely with Data Scientists to bring to models into production. The work also includes data engineering work to create efficient and well-managed training and serving environments. The ideal candidate is an innovative problem solver with demonstrable success using a variety of open-source and cloud-native technologies, a highly team-oriented attitude, and a focus on framework-oriented, configuration-driven and highly reusable design approaches.

• Supports Cloud/Big Data Engineers in coding and integrating data pipelines for automated deployment
• Evaluates new tools and approaches to continuously evolve the team's DevOps practice
• Collaborates with DevOps, Data Engineering and Data Science teams in the Enterprise

Required Experience and Hard Skills

• 4+ years developing in an Object-Oriented Programming language (Java preferred)
• 3+ years developing in Python (may be combined with the above requirement, if Python experience is strictly OO coding)
• Familiarity with specialized scripting/SDKs related to data management (e.g.: Boto3, PySpark)
• Familiarity with key file formats: JSON, YAML, AVRO, Parquet
• 2+ years working in Public Cloud environments (AWS or GCP required, others desirable)
  
  
  
  • Strong familiarity with AWS environment
  • Working knowledge of CloudFormation
  
  
• 4+ years working in Linux environments
• 4+ years in Integration Engineering, CI/CD or related field
  
  
  
  • Practical experience setting up build pipelines
  • 4+ years working with GIT and other SCM
  
  
• Experience with containerization frameworks (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with REST web-services frameworks (e.g.: Spring Boot, Flask, Rails)

Required Soft Skills

• Self-motivated learning and problem solving
• Strong team communication
• Experience working in structured environment with controlled software life cycle
• Excellent writing and documentation skills - Visio, Draw.io, LucidChart and other diagramming tools a plus

Travel Requirements

• This position requires travel up to 10% of the time.

Education and Licenses

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks.

Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions.

This position is a hybrid role that involves working a minimum of 10 days per month in the office. We know flexibility is important to our employees and their families, and we will continue to offer flexibility in this flex office/home role. This approach will guide us in balancing the needs of the business, customers and our employees.

Preferred locations for this role include:

Chicago, IL; Madison, WI; Boston, MA

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When you work at American Family you can expect benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, and a paid-time off program. In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Enterprise benefits.

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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