Senior Associate - Cloud Engineer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
When you join New York Life, you're joining a company that values development, career growth, collaboration, innovation, and diversity & inclusion. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. Through various resources and programs, you can grow your career while developing personally and professional.
As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth - driving the company's success.
New York Life is seeking an experienced and skilled Cloud Engineer that will be a member of the Cloud Services team and drive cross-functional technology for delivering projects on an IaaS platform to meet critical technology and business requirements. This opportunity provides the right individual an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a growing cloud platform, with new emerging technologies that support New York Life's cloud journey.
The individual should be well versed in infrastructure as code practices using Terraform and 4+ years Cloud experience.
What You'll Do:

• Build best-in-industry Developer experiences that are truly omni-channel, agile and scalable leveraging leading-edge technology and reusable components and services.
• Understanding of FinOps principles and desire for continued learning
• Develops ad hoc and on-going cloud financial forecasts and models that assist in making decisions, effectively communicating trends and outcomes.
• Partners with exceptional software engineering and data teams to curate enterprise-wide reporting, applicable to all technology stakeholders.
• Create complex management reports and associated analyses that explain financial results or changes to the forecast or plan, investigating discrepancies and trends to identify business drivers of results. Review the analysis and reports developed by other teammates and contribute to culture of continuous feedback.
• Work closely with frontend engineers to build a self-service web platform that will improve developer experience and reduce SDLC turnaround time.
• Bridge the gap between development and operations, ensuring collaboration and efficient tooling for engineering teams and developers.
• Provide expert knowledge on infrastructure automation approaches and platforms, to ensure our organization achieves its goals and roadmap for automation adoption. This involves translating organizational strategy and architecture into efficient, resilient, and secure technical implementations.
• Design, build, deliver, maintain and improve infrastructure solutions. This includes automation strategies such as IaC, configuration-as-code, policy-as-code, release orchestration and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and collaborative ways of working (e.g., DevOps).
• Research and prototype new tools and technologies to enhance automation platform capabilities. Proactively identify innovative ways to reduce toil, and teach, coach or mentor others to improve organizational outcomes using automation.
• Work closely with security specialists to design, implement and test security controls, and ensure automation activities align with security configuration guidance.
• Design, implement and manage scalable Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS to support cloud native applications
• Drive automation to replace manual operations and existing processes
• Provide Production Support for Cloud Platform and Cloud Platform related incidents.
• Collaborate with Cloud Architects and Solution Engineers to deliver solutions and projects.
• Support resilience activities - e.g., disaster recovery (DR) testing, chaos and performance testing, and tabletop planning exercises.
• Must be self-directed and willing to learn new tools and services to stay up to date with our evolving platforms
• Ability to communicate to non-technical and technical resources

What You'll Bring:
Required Skills:

• 6+ yrs of overall IT experience
• 4+ yrs with Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) services and platforms, AWS
• 3+ yrs of experience with containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• 3+ yrs of automating solutions and implementation of highly scalable, highly available services using terraform
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in data analysis or financial analysis, preferably in a cloud environment or with cloud cost management.
• Working knowledge and experience with Harness CCM
• Working knowledge of DevOps and delivery tools (GitHub), Jenkins
• Strong knowledge of Java based frameworks, microservices
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Executive presence with high business & technical acumen
• Strong facilitation skills for large-scale events and workshops
• Solid understanding/experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and technical/product teams.
• Must have AWS Solution Architect or Sys Ops certification.
• FinOps certification is preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in related field is a plus, but not required

Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $108,500-$155,500
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities-inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you'll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what's next, and your growth powers it.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.
Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
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Job Requisition ID: 92779