Staff DevSecOps Engineer

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:   

Designing Solutions  

• Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers  

• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy  

• Design systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem. These patterns should align to high level engineering goals, business initiatives, and account for good security practices. 

Developing Software  

• Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer. Uses application and system data, as well as past experiences to inform decision making. 

• Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions 

• Lead to identify, incorporate and define development frameworks and patterns useful to the product 

Learning and Applying New Techniques  

• Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team. 

Collaborating within the Team  

• Coordinate design and integration of a large system, including subsystems. Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems 

• Participate in team’s collaboration session to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team 

• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps product owner to create technical user stories as required/needed. 

• Contribute to detailed application specifications, standards, and diagrams and develop coding standards / best practices 

Collaborating Across The Organization  

• Act as an SME to provide overall delivery, reliability, and security processes to build resilient systems the Digital Platform 

• Collaborate with other Staff+ engineering leaders, from multiple Product teams, to define and refine best practices for the organization 

Setting technology strategy  

• Lead the design of critical path/technology for CICD, incorporate the tenants of good reliability, observability, and security. Lean into technical challenges that occur with delivering these systems at scale. 

• Integrate industry standard security practices within the CICD system to scan for software vulnerabilities and protect the integrity of the software supply chain.  

• Help to define the technology / tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team. 

Security Focus in Agile Development  

• Produce architecture documentation needed to facilitate risk assessment and data classification. 

• Identify, catalog, and implement necessary security controls in the context of CICD systems. 

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns  

• Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices 

• Share engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help software engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes 

Operational Readiness and Response  

• Lead the resolution of critical incidents and provides leadership in proactively addressing platform issues 

• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient pipelines and workflows 

• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process. 

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors  

• Lead the evaluation process for software solutions - advising on strengths and weaknesses of the external software. 

• Provide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals. 

• Contribute in criteria’s for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team. 

• Perform risk analysis and documentation of security controls within the integration architecture for vendor based solutions. 

Coaching Engineers  

• Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices   

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers of varying levels inside the platform group 

• Provide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps with in the team 

Recruiting and Building Talent  

• Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market 

• Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team 

• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.  

• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.  Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.  

 Required:  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience  

• 10+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver  

• Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.   

• Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies  

• Proficiency in managing large scale projects.  

• Strong conceptual, critical thinking, technical and problem-solving skills with good attention to details.    

• Must be articulate and have the ability to meet with high level management to present and/or deliver technical documentation.  

 Preferred:   

• Master’s degree in a related field  

• Financial Services industry experience 

• 2+ years of experience directly related to one or more of the following DevOps technologies: Github Actions (or other CI equivalents), Docker, Kubernetes, Nx or equivalent monorepo tooling