Corporate Vice President - AWS Cloud Platform Engineering Lead

New York Life•New York, NY

15d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. The Lead for Cloud Platform Engineering is responsible for a team of Cloud Platform Engineers. The Cloud Platform Lead is responsible for coordinating and curating product roadmaps from the Cloud Platform Engineers, Socializing this roadmap withing the larger organization Managing commitments and delivery from a team of engineers.

Requirements

7+ years of experience designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, with a focus on compute, storage, and AI/ML services.
Hands-on experience with AWS services: EKS, EC2, ECS, ECR, Fargate, Lamda, and Image Builder, CloudFormation/Terraform.
Proficient in container technologies (Docker) and orchestration via Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).
Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional, AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty).
Experience with MLOps tools such as SageMaker Pipelines, MLflow, or Argo Workflows.
Management experience with a small to medium sized team.
AWS Proficiency: Strong knowledge of at the AWS cloud platform and its associated services.
Compute Services: Kubernetes, EKS, EC2, ECS, ECR, Fargate, Lamda, and Image Builder
AI and ML Services: SageMaker, BedRock, Kendra, Lex, Textract, and other related AI and ML services
Cloud Architecture and Design: Understanding of cloud architecture principles, including infrastructure as code, microservices, and serverless computing.
IaC and Automation: Proficiency with Terraform, Lambda, and other languages like Python, Golang for automating tasks, managing infrastructure, and creating deployment pipelines.
Networking and Security: Understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and how they apply to cloud environments.
Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve technical issues.
Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Continuous Learning: A commitment to staying current with the rapidly evolving cloud landscape and learning new technologies.
Coding/Version Control: Familiar with the use of GitHub, GitLab, IDEs and other development version control and development technologies.

Responsibilities

Coordinating and curating product roadmaps from the Cloud Platform Engineers
Socializing this roadmap withing the larger organization
Managing commitments and delivery from a team of engineers
Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, and platform developers across networking, compute, and automation domains.
Drive the roadmap for cloud platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with business and AI/ML requirements.
Foster a culture of engineering excellence, automation, and operational ownership.
Work closely with platform engineers, enterprise architects, and cybersecurity teams to deliver platform solutions.
Manage cloud costs, reporting, and forecasting across business units.
Lead operational reviews, incident analysis, and continuous improvement efforts.