Data Engineer

Founded in 1851, MassMutual is committed to its purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. Ranked No. 76 in the annual FORTUNE® 500 ranking (FORTUNE® Magazine, 6/15/16), MassMutual continues its long history of financial strength. We invite you to bring your bright, innovative ideas to MassMutual as we continue to help millions of Americans achieve their financial goals.

MassMutual’s Data Engineering team is seeking a Data Engineer to own web and analytics infrastructure in AWS, including automating service provisioning, orchestration, and delivery. The successful candidate will continuously monitor and improve our infrastructure for performance, stability, scalability, and security. Candidates assuming this role must be comfortable working through unusual and unexpected situations. They must have a history of tenacity and grit in investigating and identifying root causes. The successful candidate must be a scrappy problem solver who can find out nearly anything about a Unix host once in possession of login credentials and elevated privileges. No training will be provided for this role; the successful candidate will join or found a small team and deliver material contributions in AWS within a week of starting.

This role will own the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of core services including: * Relational Databases (Postgres, Vertica) * Non-relational Databases (Mongo, etc.) * Reverse proxies (Nginx, HAProxy, Traefik, ELBs) * Search indexes (ElasticSearch, Solr) * Collectd, Prometheus, Fluentd * Grafana, PromDash * Consul, Vault This role will proactively manage the health and performance of our applications and services using tools like Consul, Collectd, Promethus, Graphite, Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch The role will own the deployment and maintenance of APIs, web services, and dashboards, and will automate deployment and maintenance of cluster computing infrastructure

**Basic Qualifications** * 5+ years’ full-time professional experience with Python and Bash * 5+ years’ prior experience with a configuration management tool, preferably Ansible * 5+ years’ experience with web infrastructure * 3+ years’ of experience working with DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, and general traffic manipulation with various proxy and reverse proxy tools * 3+ years’ experience with distributed and scaled systems architecture * Participation in an on-call rotation * Bachelor’s degree in a related field required; Master’s degree preferred * Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship **Preferred Qualifications** * The successful candidate might also possess experience developing, advocating, and enforcing standards and best practices in managing medium-scale cloud and on-premises infrastructure comprising hundreds of individual systems * Proven experience in systems administration and engineering * Proficiency in managing Linux based systems and cloud infrastructure **Winning Ways** * Focus on the Customer: Know your customers well; add value with a sense of urgency. * Act with Integrity: Be trustworthy, adhere to high ethical standards and adhere to the letter and spirit of applicable laws, rules, regulations and company policies * Value People: Lead people to success; appreciate diverse backgrounds, ideas and experiences. * Work Collaboratively: Partner with others to achieve results that leverage the right resources * Achieve Results: Focus on winning; consistently exceeds expectations, beat the competition