Senior Platform Engineer (Hybrid Work Model)

What You'll Receive

You want a positive work/life balance. Our hybrid work model allows you to enjoy the benefits of working from home on Monday and Friday, but also provides the opportunity for team building and collaboration when working in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. To help you work effectively and comfortably in both locations, we provide you with equipment to work at home and in the office.

You can enjoy a complete benefits package, including generous paid time off, 8% 401(k) match, matching charitable gift program, bonus plan based on company performance, meal stipends, associate discounts, and volunteer time off.

About Sentry

Our background: We're one of the largest and most financially secure mutual insurance groups in the nation. More than 4,000 strong, our associates bring together diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets to make Sentry who we are. We're No. 658 on the Fortune 1000 list and named one of America's Best Midsize Employers by Forbes. We're in the business of helping others, and that includes the communities where we live and work. Our annual United Way campaign has raised more than $1 million for the past seven years.

Our Middleton, Wisconsin, office is located in Greenway Station, not far from downtown Madison. Here, you have easy access to restaurants, bike paths, and shopping. Office amenities include a fitness room, break areas, sit/stand desks, and plenty of natural light in a modern building.

Our Stevens Point campus offers a full-service fitness center, swimming pool, basketball and racquetball courts, auto center, credit union, on-site Aspirus clinic, restaurants, boutique hotel, and the award-winning SentryWorld golf course.

Embrace the opportunity to contribute as a technical engineer at Sentry, where your skills on our Cloud & Platform Engineer team are highly valued and where growth is encouraged. You'll work on diverse technologies while fostering innovation and creativity that support leading business solutions from our Application Development teams. This position can be filled as a Senior Platform Engineer, or a Platform Engineer based on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate.

What You'll Do

You're a valuable contributor. As an associate at Sentry, we believe in your skills and knowledge. Your input and participation matters. You'll have the opportunity to:

• Innovate: Through our agile development process, you'll have the opportunity to apply your creativity and innovation to drive new solutions.

• Learn: Sentry provides several resources for furthering your career and continuing your personal development, including Sentry University, LinkedIn Learning, and developer-led educational sessions and communities.

• Grow: Sentry provides many opportunities to grow in your career. Through meaningful, ongoing conversations around growth and development, we encourage all associates to take ownership in their career path.

• Contribute: You'll work in a full-stack, cloud first, development environment where you'll have the chance to work in many industry-leading technologies. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will:

  • Design and implement robust and scalable devops solutions in support of the team's IT and/or business functions.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement software and infrastructure solutions that improve platform capabilities across multiple areas of the organization.

  • Assist with organizing and executing team planning and delivery activities and ceremonies such as running stand-ups, code/solutions reviews, problem analysis, and technical demonstrations.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues and support requests across the application, infrastructure, network and security domains - providing an escalated tier of support within the team.

  • Create and present well-organized training and knowledge materials to share insights and practices with peers across IT.

  • Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems and capabilities.

• What it Takes:

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.

  • Minimum 2 years related work experience, 5 or more years of related work experience is preferred.

  • Strong technical, analytical, and communication skills.

  • Experience in designing, planning, and implementing application platforms.

  • Experience with some the following technologies or concepts is preferred: CI/CD Tooling: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Chef, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Containers: Docker, ECS, Load balancing and certificate management, Scripting languages: PowerShell, Python, Bash, Programming languages: Java, C#, .NET framework/core, Linux and Windows operating systems.

If you have experience or knowledge in one of the preferred skills listed above, we want you to consider joining the Sentry team!

How You'll Apply

We'd love for you to join us. Please complete your online application and upload your resume on our Careers site. If you have applied with us before, you only need to provide your email address and password. If this is your first time applying with Sentry, please create an account.

If you have specific questions regarding the position, application process, or are interested in learning more about Sentry, please reach out to Katelynne Rivera, Talent Acquisition Specialist.

Qualified current H1B Visa holders are also encouraged to apply.

Get ready to own your future at Sentry. Your opportunity awaits.

Talent Acquisition Specialist
Thank you for your interest in Sentry!
Katelynne Rivera

Equal Employment Opportunity

Sentry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy that there be no discrimination in employment based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, marital status, or sexual orientation.