National Life Group · 2 days ago
Principal Engineer, Cloud Engineering
Montpelier, VT
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$137K/yr - $201K/yr
10+ years expNational Life Group is one of America’s fastest-growing insurance companies, aiming to provide families with stability. The Principal Engineer position involves leading infrastructure design and integrations, driving continuous improvement in infrastructure ecosystems, and collaborating across a vibrant technical community.
Health CareInsuranceLife Insurance
No H1B
Responsibilities
You will lead development and enhancement of automation of cloud enablement tools
You will drive implementation of the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption
You will lead delivery of project support as a subject matter expert in infrastructure technologies
You will help lead incident resolution and resolution of business issues
You possess the ability to communicate effectively with an appropriate level of detail to all levels within the company
You will lead identifying and managing capacity, performance, and risk
You will adhere to and promote firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and are familiar with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations
You will drive innovation and encourage others to remain current on emerging technologies and development trends
You will lead the delivery of collaborative cloud solution architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices
You will lead development, design, and implementation of platform architectures that will support key software development and deployment processes
You will lead and review cloud-native and hybrid solution architectures
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree, preferred in Computer Science; or relevant work experience
10+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience with at least 4 years in a technical team leadership role
4+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge working in public cloud technologies and solutions (Azure Preferred)
3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications in production environments
2+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge of platform architectures and technologies
Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively with others
Show up consistently with a positive attitude
Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority
Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies
Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations
Preferred
Certifications in Azure are highly desirable
Experience with OpenAI and AI Technologies are highly desirable
Broad engineering awareness of the following technical domains and expert technical expertise in at least two of the following areas – Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.), Public Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.), Networking (CDN, SD Wan, Load Balancing, WAF, etc.), Monitoring & Instrumentation (New Relic, Splunk, Zenoss, etc.), Systems Administration (Windows, Linux, Active Directory, SCCM, etc.), Automation Technologies (CI/CD, Infrastructure-As-Code, etc.)
Benefits
Flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs
401(k) eligibility
Various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave
Discretionary annual incentive programs
Company
National Life Group
National Life Group offers life insurance, and annuity products to help individuals, families and businesses pursue financial needs.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
M
Mehran Assadi
Chairman, CEO & President
Recent News
2025-11-26
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