Observability & Middleware Platforms Engineering Leader (Hybrid)
Saint Paul, MN Campus Hybrid
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About the role
The Observability & Middleware Platform Engineering Leader is responsible for engineering and evolving Securian’s 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.
What you'll bring
- 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 you’re in a commutable distance (90 minutes) you’ll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships.