Corporate Vice President - Google Cloud Platform Engineer - Enterprise Cloud & AI Platform

Overview

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter

The GCP Platform Engineer at New York Life is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, compliant, and scalable cloud and AI-enabled platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role enables application, data, and analytics teams by providing standardized cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and approved Google AI services, while meeting financial services regulatory, security, and resiliency requirements.

The engineer partners with the Cloud, Data & AI teams, Information Security, and Risk to ensure AI workloads are deployed with appropriate governance, data controls, and observability.

• Enterprise Cloud & AI Platform
  • Design and maintain enterprise GCP landing zones using Google Cloud Deployment Manager, Terraform, and Cloud Foundation Toolkit aligned with NYL governance standards.
  • Build and operate shared cloud services supporting AI and non-AI workloads on GCP components like Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Spanner.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for platform, networking, and AI service enablement.
  • Support hybrid connectivity and secure data access patterns for AI use cases using Cloud Interconnect and Cloud VPN.
• Kubernetes, Containers & AI Workloads
  • Engineer and operate GKE clusters for application and AI inference workloads.
  • Enable containerized AI services and microservices using approved base images from Google Container Registry (GCR) or JFrog Artifact Registry.
  • Support GPU-enabled workloads where approved.
  • Implement standardized deployment patterns for AI APIs and services using Helm for Kubernetes deployment management.
• Google AI / GenAI Enablement
  • Enable and operate approved Google AI services, including Vertex AI (model hosting, endpoints, pipelines – platform enablement only, agentic AI deployments and communication protocols in Vertex AI Agent Builder and Agent Engine), Gemini APIs and other managed GenAI services (as approved by NYL governance), and Big Query ML.
  • Implement secure access controls, networking, and monitoring for AI services using IAM, VPC Service Controls, and Cloud Monitoring.
  • Integrate AI platforms with CI/CD pipelines and enterprise SDLC controls using tools like Harness CI/CD.
  • Partner with Data & AI teams to operationalize AI workloads safely and compliantly within Google Cloud environments.
• Dev Ops, Automation & MLOps Foundations
  • Build secure CI/CD pipelines for application and AI workloads using Harness CI/CD.
  • Support MLOps foundations such as:
    • Model deployment automation via Kubeflow, Tensor Flow Extended (TFX), Vertex AI Pipelines, and Vertex AI Model Registry.
    • Environment promotion and rollback using Terraform.
    • Monitoring and logging for AI endpoints using New Relic and Cloud Logging/Monitoring for observability.
  • Enforce guardrails, approvals, and policy-as-code for AI usage with Cloud Security Command Center, Google Cloud Policy Analyzer, and Open Policy Agent (OPA).
• Security, Risk & Compliance
  • Implement IAM, workload identity, and least-privilege models for AI services using IAM and Workload Identity Federation.
  • Enforce data residency, encryption, and access policies using KMS and DLP.
  • Integrate AI platform telemetry with enterprise logging, monitoring, and SIEM using Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and New Relic.
  • Support audits, risk reviews, and regulatory requirements (SOC2, SOX, data privacy) with Cloud Security Command Center, Cloud Audit Logs, and DLP API.
• Reliability, Observability & Cost Management
  • Design platforms for high availability and resilience, including AI services using GKE, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, and Google Cloud Load Balancing.
  • Monitor AI workloads for performance, reliability, and cost using New Relic, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, and Harness CCM.
  • Control costs with budgets and usage controls using Google Cloud Billing, Budgets, Alerts, and Harness CCM.
  • Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis; manage incident notifications through Pager Duty.
• Collaboration & Governance
  • Partner with Data & AI, Info Sec, Security, Risk, and Application teams to ensure secure, compliant, and efficient AI platform…