Senior Associate - Platform Reliability Engineer - Cloud Technology

New York Life Insurance Co•Lebanon, NJ

2d•$145,400 - $212,200•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Senior Associate - Platform Reliability Engineer - Cloud Technology within the Cloud Technology team. The position is fully onsite in Lebanon, New Jersey. The primary focus is on automating and delivering reliable solutions using tools like Terraform, GitHub, and Jenkins, supporting application implementations on AWS, and remediating platform defects and security vulnerabilities. The role involves participating in production releases, reviewing IaaS issues, assessing resource usage for efficiency and cost optimization, driving automation to replace manual operations, and providing production support for cloud platform incidents. Collaboration with Cloud Architects and Solution Engineers is key to delivering solutions and projects.

Requirements

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field (or foreign equivalent) plus four (4) years of experience as a Senior Associate – Platform Reliability Engineer – Cloud Technology or related occupation delivering automated, scalable cloud solutions and ensuring platform reliability.
Alternatively, a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field (or foreign equivalent) plus six (6) years of experience as a Senior Associate – Platform Reliability Engineer – Cloud Technology or related occupation delivering automated, scalable cloud solutions and ensuring platform reliability.
Deploying, maintaining, and automating services within AWS and Azure cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
Monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing performance of distributed systems in cloud environments.
Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and other Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like AWS Cloud Formation.
Designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions for micro services web applications.
Implementing security controls, mitigating vulnerabilities using Wiz scans, and managing SSL certificates to ensure compliance and data protection.
Performing end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) activities to enable continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Implementing CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps to integrate automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
Utilizing enterprise tools such as GitHub, New Relic, Jenkins, Terraform, Artifactory, Nexus, SonarQube, and Fisheye for source control, artifact management, code quality, and observability.

Responsibilities

Automate and deliver repeatable, reliable solutions using Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, and support application implementations on AWS.
Automate remediation of platform defects and security vulnerabilities.
Participate in monthly production platform releases.
Review and identify IaaS issues or concerns.
Assess resource usage and offer recommendations to improve efficiency, maximize utilization, and minimize cloud 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.