Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS & SRE

New York Life; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Life seeks a Senior Associate, Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms. You will apply IaC, automation, and SRE practices to deliver reliable cloud services, collaborating with security, architecture, and application teams.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes/EKS, platform engineering, and building self-service patterns for developers, with a focus on security and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, building, and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, IaC, cloud automation, and Git-based DevOps/CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Python or Go or Java with automation and tooling experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms in production.
• Strong SRE knowledge: monitoring, observability, incident management, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and improve secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms using IaC and automation.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities and tooling to streamline cloud operations.
• Apply SRE practices to improve availability, observability, and resilience.
• Design, implement, and operate Kubernetes and EKS environments with security controls.
• Collaborate across teams to troubleshoot, scale, and improve cloud platform services.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

Go

CI/CD

SRE practices

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform Cloud

GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

New York Life seeks a Senior Associate, Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms. You will apply IaC, automation, and SRE practices to deliver reliable cloud services, collaborating with security, architecture, and application teams.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes/EKS, platform engineering, and building self-service patterns for developers, with a focus on security and observability.