Senior Associate – Cloud Engineer

Location

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 professionally. 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.

• Build best-in-industry developer experiences that are truly omni‑channel, agile and scalable leveraging leading‑edge technology and reusable components and services.
• Understand Fin Ops principles and desire for continued learning.
• Develop ad‑hoc and ongoing cloud financial forecasts and models that assist in making decisions, effectively communicating trends and outcomes.
• Partner 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 a 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, ensuring the organization attains its goals and roadmap for automation adoption. Translate 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 CI/CD pipelines, and collaborative ways of working (e.g., Dev Ops).
• 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, ensuring 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 related incidents.
• Collaborate with Cloud Architects and Solution Engineers to deliver solutions and projects.
• Support resilience activities (e.g., disaster recovery testing, chaos and performance testing, and tabletop planning exercises).
• Be self‑directed and willing to learn new tools and services to stay up to date with evolving platforms.
• Communicate effectively to non‑technical and technical audiences.

• 6 years of overall IT experience.
• 4 years with Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) services and platforms, AWS.
• 3 years of experience with containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes.
• 3 years of automating solutions and implementing 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 of Harness CCM.
• Working knowledge of Dev Ops and delivery tools (Git Hub, Jenkins).
• Strong knowledge of Java‑based frameworks and microservices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Executive presence…