Cloud Engineering/Architecture

Cloud Engineer III On Cloud Foundations

As a Cloud Engineer III on Cloud Foundations, you'll help build and run the secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platform capabilities that power Northwestern Mutual's technology ecosystem. This team is moving toward a services- and automation-first model, where core cloud capabilities are delivered through standardized patterns, APIs, pipelines, and self-service workflows rather than one-off manual provisioning. You'll work across AWS and Azure to improve platform consistency, strengthen governance and observability, and reduce friction for application teams adopting cloud services.

This role is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys solving real platform problems, improving how things operate at scale, and partnering across engineering, security, and network teams to turn solid architecture into usable, supportable services. We value technical curiosity, practical automation, clean engineering habits, and a mindset that balances speed with stability, security, and long-term maintainability.

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)

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), and 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 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 Unit Testing
• Experience with Linux and Windows. Involves expertise in implementing and maintaining automated testing processes for software delivery pipelines. Builds tools and continuous integration servers to enable continuous testing, integration, and delivery of software products. Collaborates with developers to ensure that automated tests are executed at each stage of the pipeline, identifies and reports issues, and provides feedback to improve the overall quality of the applications.

Cloud & IT Infrastructure: Embraces, prioritizes, and applies DevOps principles and mindset to cybersecurity services and capabilities; leverages understanding of enterprise IT environment from operating system to networks and domain services and orchestrates applications and infrastructure through a pipeline approach.

Cloud Technology: Applies knowledge of cloud service platforms and delivery models to support, develop, adopt, secure, implement and evaluate end-to-end cloud solutions delivery and data storage instead of through traditional physical servers in a back office.

Site Reliability Engineering: Uses software tools to automate IT infrastructure tasks such as system management and application monitoring. Ensures software applications remain reliable amidst updates from development teams. Improves reliability of scalable software systems.

Software Engineering: Designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains software applications for the organization to use to process complex technical information. Demonstrates the ability to convert design specifications into functional software solutions that meet customer needs. Includes planning, designing, programming, debugging, testing, documenting and maintaining applications and services, using established coding standards and methodologies. Uses software development processes in which the smallest testable parts of an application (units) are individually and independently scrutinized for proper operation.

Geographic Specific Pay Structure:

Structure 110: $108,160.00 USD - $162,240.00 USD

Structure 115: $113,040.00 USD - $169,560.00 USD

The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.

We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.