Director of DevOps and SRE Engineering

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.

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The Director of DevOps will guide our adoption of infrastructure-as-code pipelines and expand our EKS-based microservice platform across the Empower enterprise. You will enable autonomous, cross-functional teams to be more productive, strengthen security with automated controls, and continuously improve the scalability and observability of our systems. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with building and leading high-performing engineering teams in support of an organization committed to diversity and inclusion, community, and long-term success.

What you will do:

• Build, grow, and manage high-performing engineering teams, and participate in roadmaps, vision, and strategic planning.
• Partner with developers, quality engineers, security engineers, data engineers, DBAs, and product managers to deliver Infrastructure, Security, and Operation as Code.
• Lead adoption and expansion of CI/CD and IaC pipelines to support secure, scalable application delivery.
• Define and instrument end to end observability monitors, alerts and practices.
• Develop recovery and incident run books.
• Define, validate and instrument SLO and SLI across platform services.
• Provide engineering leadership and best practices including code reviews and platform and SDLC practices
• Foster strong working relationships across Engineering and the broader business.
• Communicate effectively with strong verbal and written skills, keeping leadership informed and helping create organizational goals.
• Remove technical obstacles, enhance team processes, and drive resolutions for complex issues.
• Mentor, coach, and support individuals through 1:1s and career development.

What you will bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent STEM, from an accredited college or university.
• 10+ years of AWS experience, including designing, building, and operating large-scale applications.
• 6+ years of experience managing a DevOps/SRE or Engineering organization, with a passion for mentoring and leading engineers.
• Expertise building fully automated infrastructure, preferably using AWS, EKS, GitLab, and Terraform.
• Experience setting up observability tools (SRE) and driving adoption with development teams.
• Software engineering background.
• Experience working with, operating, and deploying CI/CD and IaC pipelines.
• Expertise with Istio and AWS IAM.
• Experience supporting data platforms and tools such as Spark, EMR, and SageMaker.
• Ability to work cooperatively and effectively across organizations and all levels of leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• AWS certifications.

What will set you apart:

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• A background in retirement, finance, or the insurance industry.
• AWS Solutions or Developer Certification

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required perform other duties that are not included on this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

What we offer you

We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retireme