VP, Cloud Platform Engineering Leader

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Job Summary:
As part of our Technology organization, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's (NYL) 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.
As the Cloud Platform Engineering Leader, you will lead a team of engineers devoted to creating highly resilient hybrid cloud platforms to support NYL's business operations. The platforms include distributed systems, virtualization, public cloud AWS/Azure), and Kubernetes. In this role you will drive our multiyear strategy to ensure our platforms are evergreen and evolving to support ongoing NYL modernization programs. Stakeholder engagement is a critical success factor.
A successful leader is a close partner with NYL Technology Leaders and is ahead of the demand for modern self-provisioned infrastructure as code (IaC) platforms. A comprehensive GenAI Strategy is essential for delivering capabilities rapidly while reducing operating costs. We're aggressively modernizing our core platforms which requires active leadership and the ability to transform our infrastructure services to leverage public cloud and micro services architectures.
Define the infrastructure technology roadmap that includes deliverables focused on the continued improvement of the supported solutions, and empowering a DevOps culture through the use of automated platform capabilities underpinning customer-focused product engineering and development.
Primary responsibilities:

• Lead the engineering teams responsible for core cloud infrastructure, compute, networking, container orchestration, and internal platform services
• Define and drive the vision, architecture, and roadmap for a self-service, secure, and highly available cloud platform

• Ensure a high standard of operational excellence through automation, monitoring, observability, incident management, and capacity planning

• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to build platforms that are secure by design and meet regulatory standards

• Partner with Developer Experience and SRE to streamline the development-to-deployment lifecycle and improve developer velocity

• Lead modernization efforts such as infrastructure-as-code, service mesh adoption, multi-cloud strategy, or internal platform APIs

• Recruit, mentor, and develop a world-class team of platform engineers and engineering leaders
• Manage the Cloud Engineering, Storage, and Compute environment
• Serve as a thought leader, driving the AWS architecture and strategy
• Execute successful program delivery by defining objectives, aligning resources, leveraging GenAI, and fostering collaboration and contributions across teams to ensure impactful outcomes
• Leverage Kubernetes (AWS EKS) technology to deploy, install, upgrade, patch, and maintain resilient, reliable solutions for developing, testing, securing, and shipping software applications to production
• Evolve infrastructure to be deployed via pipelines whereby cloud services, IaC code, base images, yaml files are integrated to create full stack patterns raising the level of infrastructure abstraction to the point where software developers focused on business capabilities
• Actively engage in Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming, and performance metric tracking to ensure continuous delivery of high-quality products
• Improve NYL Cyber Security through efficient processes to detect and remediate vulnerabilities and non-standard configurations in infrastructure services
• Build and maintain strong relationships to promote cross-tech contributions focused on improving developer experience
• Review monthly service management and consumption metrics for your products and services and address any deviations or SLA deficiencies
• Maintain and enhance the product and service catalog for infrastructure services including monthly updates to consumers providing advice on cost control levers
• Benchmark your product per unit costs annually to maintain competitive and accurate pricing.

Business & Technology Skills:

• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams to adopt infrastructure shared services
• Highly collaborative and effective in building guilds and collaboration channels which raise the organizations level of effectiveness in software development
• Displays empathy for the software development community and champions continuous improvement to optimize the end-to-end software delivery process
• AI first approach to developer experience

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
• One or more AWS certifications
• Expert in AWS Well Architected Framework
• Indepth knowledge of API development and standards
• Practical experience in developing and deploying ML/AI driven developer experiences
• In depth technical knowledge of Kubernetes, AWS Services, Terraform, and one or more software development frameworks
• At least five years of leadership experience
• At least five years of software development experience
• 10 years' experience building and supporting AWS cloud services in large enterprise environments

Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $250,000 - $300,000
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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