Platform Reliability Engineer – Data, Content & Analytics (Hybrid)

***At Securian the internal job title is Infrastructure Consultant or Infrastructure Sr Consultant. Level and salary will be determined based on applied skills. This team has two openings.

Position Summary

The Platform Reliability Engineer is responsible for designing building and evolving enterprise-scale platform capabilities that ensure the reliability scalability and resiliency of Securians data content and analytics platforms.

This role is part of the Platform Reliability Engineering (PRE) team within the Reliability Engineering Organization (REO) and focuses on complex engineering work including platform design automation reliability improvements and systemic issue preventionrather than day-to-day operational support.

The position emphasizes software engineering automation and infrastructure-as-code to improve how platforms are built and maintained with the goal of reducing manual effort and improving long-term platform stability. Reliability principles are applied through engineering design and code not through traditional operations or manual execution.

This role primarily supports distributed and cloud-based platforms. Occasional collaboration with mainframe-integrated services (IMS/DB2) may occur and may include learning assisting with or contributing to engineering efforts.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Engineer reliable scalable and resilient platform capabilities supporting enterprise data content and analytics workloads.

• Design and develop net-new software automation and tooling to improve platform reliability scalability performance and maintainability.

• Apply reliability engineering principles through platform architecture code and automation rather than manual operational processes.

• Build enhance and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to improve consistency and eliminate repetitive operational tasks.

• Design and implement observability capabilities (metrics logging tracing alerting) as part of platform engineering standards.

• Collaborate with application engineering architecture and product teams to embed reliability performance and security into platform solutions.

• Engineer and support distributed database content and analytics platforms including:

  • SQL Server Oracle and cloud-native database services

  • FileNet P8 TotalAgility

  • Enterprise analytics and integration platforms

  • Collaborate on engineering and integration efforts involving mainframe systems (IMS/DB2) as needed in support of broader platform reliability and modernization initiatives.

• Participate in engineering-led incident response root cause analysis and implementation of long-term remediation strategies.

• Focus on long-term engineering-based solutions that prevent recurring issues rather than repeated manual intervention.

• Perform capacity planning performance engineering and resiliency design to support evolving business demands.

• Engineer platform services and automation in AWS aligned with enterprise cloud and security standards.

• Participate in a shared engineering on-call rotation emphasizing diagnosis automation and permanent corrective actions not routine operational tasks.

• Coordinate as needed with specialized teams on limited IMS and DB2 integration or reliability concerns; this work is not a primary focus of the role.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science Software Engineering Information Technology or a related field; or equivalent experience.

• Demonstrated proficiency in software engineering including the ability to:

  • Write production-quality code

  • Develop net-new automation tooling or services

  • Apply software engineering practices to infrastructure and platform domains

• Experience engineering and supporting data content or analytics platforms (e.g. SQL Server cloud-native databases FileNet P8 TotalAgility Informatica Tableau Business Objects or similar technologies).

• Experience working with cloud platforms preferably AWS.

• Experience implementing automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using technologies such as Terraform CloudFormation Python PowerShell or equivalent.

• Strong analytical troubleshooting and critical thinking skills in complex distributed environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience engineering AWS-based data services (e.g. Amazon RDS Aurora PostgreSQL DynamoDB).

• Experience designing and implementing observability and reliability patterns within platform architectures.

• Knowledge of high availability disaster recovery and resiliency design patterns.

• Experience integrating platforms with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

• Experience with tools such as Dynatrace Terraform CloudFormation or Python-based automation.

• Familiarity with mainframe technologies such as IMS or DB2; deep mainframe expertise is not required.

Core Competencies

• Engineering-focused problem solving and systems thinking

• Strong collaboration and communication skills

• Continuous improvement and ownership mindset

• Ability to operate effectively in complex evolving technical environments

#LI-Hybrid **This position willhave a hybrid working arrangement workingin-officefor a minimum of3days aweek.**

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.

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