Associate - Cloud Fullstack Engineer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter

Our New York Life culture has laid the foundation for over 180 years of commitment to our employees, agents, policy owners, and the communities where we live and work. Here you become a valued part of a welcoming, inclusive, and caring organization with a long-standing legacy in stability and growth. The strength revolves around our diversified, multi-dimensional business portfolio that goes beyond life insurance.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide an environment where you can explore your career ambitions, offering opportunities to tackle meaningful challenges and stretch your skills while balancing work and life priorities. You will be part of an inclusive team guided by our belief to always be there for each other–providing the support and flexibility to grow and reach new heights while making an impact in the lives of others.

You are our future, and we commit to investing in you accordingly.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Knowledge of frontend development like .Net or Java to write code for interacting with AWS APIs.
• 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.
• 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
• Establish logging, monitoring and observability solutions, including identification of requirements, nonfunctional requirements, design, implementation and operationalization
• Aid with application implementations on AWS
• Automate remediation of platform defects and security vulnerabilities
• Participate in monthly production platform releases
• Interpret and advise on usage to optimize and maximize utilization of deployed resources to reduce spend
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field is a plus, but not required
• 2+ yrs of overall IT experience
• 2+ yrs with Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) services and platforms, AWS
• 2+ yrs of experience with containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• 2+ yrs of automating solutions and implementation of highly scalable, highly available services using terraform
• Working knowledge of DevOps and delivery tools (GitHub), Jenkins
• Strong knowledge of Java based frameworks, microservices
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• 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.

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $65,000-$110,000

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.

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 here to 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 .

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Job Requisition ID: 92160