Experience more with a career at COUNTRY Financial!

We’re excited you’re interested in a career at COUNTRY as we strive toward our vision - to enrich lives in the communities we serve. Our footprint spans coast to coast. But more important than where we operate, is the people who do the work. Apply today to help our organization grow and make a difference for our clients.

About the role

The Technology Engineer Consultant – UNIX serves as a senior technical leader and platform owner for COUNTRY’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments across on‑premises and Azure. This role ensures the planning, selection, design, and maintenance of high‑quality, secure, and cost‑effective UNIX/Linux platform solutions that support current and emerging business needs.

You will lead the engineering direction for the UNIX platform, driving automation, cloud optimization, compliance, and operational excellence. You will partner closely with IT Security, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Application Development teams to ensure that all platform solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements—including performance, resiliency, security, availability, and scalability.

As a platform owner, you will define technical standards, govern platform lifecycle and roadmaps, and ensure systems run effectively in production. You will lead modernization efforts, guide multi-year platform strategy, mentor engineers, and elevate the quality and maturity of the UNIX platform across the organization.

How does this role make an impact?

- Design, build, implement, and support COUNTRY’s IT solutions.
- Ensure IT solutions meet requirements for security, availability, capacity, resiliency, and performance in a way that is efficient and supportable, reducing overall support costs.
- Understand industry leading solutions and trends for assigned technologies and applying those as appropriate for COUNTRY.
- Understand business needs and partnering with appropriate IT counterparts to recommend technology solutions.
- Establish and maintain an IT multi-year strategy with a focus on continuous improvement. Create and maintain solutions architecture artifacts and other strategy and system documentation.

Do you have what we're looking for?

• Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience or a combination of related experience, education and training.
• Deep expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux engineering across on‑prem and Azure, with strong experience defining and executing multi‑year platform strategy and modernization efforts.
• Proven ability to lead automation, cloud optimization, compliance, and operational excellence initiatives across large-scale UNIX/Linux environments.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with architecture, security, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable platform solutions.
• Strong proficiency across modern engineering practices and tools, including cloud services, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, containerization, DevOps/automation, backup and recovery, cost optimization, and effective documentation and collaboration—without the need to list each technology individually.

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Base Pay Range:

$113,200-$155,650

The base pay range represents the typical range of potential salary offers for candidates hired. Factors used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, qualifications and experience.

Incentive Pay:

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a Short-Term Incentive plan.

Why work with us?

Our employees and representatives serve nearly one million households with our diverse range of personal and business insurance products as well as retirement and investment services. We build relationships and work together to create a stronger, more secure future for our clients and our communities. We’re a big company, yet small enough you can make an impact and won’t get lost in the shuffle. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow throughout your career, either within this role or by exploring other areas of our business.

You’ll be able to take advantage of our benefits package, which includes insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life), 401(k) with company match.

COUNTRY Financial is committed to providing equal opportunity in all areas of employment, and in providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, disability, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.

Come join our team at COUNTRY today!