Observability & Middleware Platforms Engineering Leader (Hybrid)

*At Securian Financial the internal position title is Infrastructure Sr Mgr.*

Mission Statement

The Observability & Middleware Platforms team within the Platform & Reliability Engineering organization empowers Securians technology ecosystem by delivering reliable scalable and automated enterprise platforms. This team designs and delivers foundational capabilities which enable application hosting integrations messaging mainframe and deep observability insight across our technology landscape. Our mission includes ensuring all systems and applications are observable performant and ready to meet the needs of our customers and business.

Role Purpose / Charter

The Observability & Middleware Platform Engineering Leader is responsible for engineering and evolving Securians middleware technologies mainframe and observability backbone. This role leads a team of Engineers in defining and delivering on roadmaps for application hosting and runtime (e.g. Tomcat EC2 product and other Linux-based OS and apps distributed batch environment) integrations and messaging (e.g. MQ SQS managed file transfer) mainframe API platforms (Kong Layer7) and enterprise observability platforms for logs metrics tracing correlation AIOps FinOps etc. This leader ensures these technologies are well engineered automated optimized and meet the needs of IT Operations and Technology Services teams other teams in Platform & Reliability Engineering Enterprise Cybersecurity and application engineering teams throughout Enterprise Technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design engineering and growth of enterprise observability and AIOps capabilities ensuring integrated telemetry across logs metrics traces and events is automated and easy to adopt for all application and team needs.

• Drive adoption of standardized instrumentation (e.g. OpenTelemetry) across infrastructure and application services.

• Partner with other Engineering teams in Platform & Reliability Engineering to ensure seamless integration of observability into all technology platforms and capabilities.

• Provide visibility into platform health performance and maturity through dashboards KPIs and executive reporting. Partner with IT Operations and Technology Services to ensure observability meets needs for operating and effectively running our IT environments.

• Lead the engineering and modernization of middleware solutions including Workload Automation Job Scheduling Managed File Transfer (MFT) MQ Tomcat on EC2 pattern and other Linux & EC2 based applications and infrastructure.

• Lead the engineering and modernization of our API platforms Kong and Layer7.

• Own the lifecycle management integration and reliability of the mainframe platform (IBM z/OS). Drive modernization of these mainframe technologies in partnership with ET market teams and our business.

• Provide Level 3 support and expertise supporting escalations from our Operations Level 1 and Level 2 teams.

• Ensure compliance security and resilience are built into all platform services.

• Lead a team of Engineers. Develop and mentor engineering associates to mature automation platform operations and observability practices.

• Continuously improve platform efficiency cost optimization and scalability. Manage the budget and licensing for all technologies in scope of the role.

Required Capabilities & Skills

• Demonstrated leadership skills in team development collaboration and communication with leadership peers and executives prioritization of team work managing sizable technology budgets and managing relationships with current and new technology vendors.

• Expertise in middleware application hosting integrations messaging and API capabilities.

• Deep expertise in observability platforms (AIOps logs metrics traces correlation pipelines OpenTelemetry Dynatrace Grafana Prometheus).

• Strong grounding in infrastructure automation (IaC Python Terraform/CloudFormation TypeScript configuration management).

• Knowledge of mainframe (z/OS) systems integration and lifecycle. Knowledge of leveraging AI and automation towards modernizing off a mainframe.

• Proven ability to manage large-scale infrastructure services with reliability and compliance requirements.

• Strong problem-solving root-cause analysis and continuous improvement mindset.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.**

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If youre in a commutable distance (90 minutes) youll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

Preferred Skills:

Be you. With us. At Securian Financial we understand that attracting top talent means offering more than just a job it means providing a rewarding and fulfilling career. As a valued member of our high-performing team we want you to connect with your work your relationships and your community. Enjoy our comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your professional growth well-being and work-life balance including the advantages listed here:

Paid time off:

• We want you to take time off for what matters most to you. Our PTO program provides flexibility for associates to take meaningful time away from work to relax recharge and spend time doing whats important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.
• Leave programs: Securians flexible leave programs allow time off from work for parental leave caregiver leave for family members bereavement and military leave.
• Holidays: Securian provides nine company paid holidays.

Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan: Share in the success of our company. Securians 401(k) company contribution is tied to our performance up to 10 percent of eligible earnings with a target of 5 percent. The amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings sales and service.

Health insurance: From the first day of employment associates and their eligible family members including spouses domestic partners and children are eligible for medical dental and vision coverage.

Volunteer time: We know the importance of community. Through company-sponsored events volunteer paid time off a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program and more we encourage you to support organizations important to you.

Associate Resource Groups: Build connections be yourself and develop meaningful relationships at work through associate-led ARGs. Dedicated groups focus on a variety of interests and affinities including:

• Environmental Health & Sustainability
• Mental Wellness and Disability
• Pride at Securian Financial
• Securian Young Professionals Network
• Securian Multicultural Network
• Securian Women and Allies Network
• Servicemember Associate Resource Group

For more information regarding Securians benefits please review our Benefits page.

This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these all cases the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

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