Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable, Self-Service Platform

Next Insurance, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 147,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two health insurance options

401k with employer match

Paid time off (24 days)

Annual bonus potential

Gym and wellness programs

Tuition assistance

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Munich Re US is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a secure internal platform for running business apps and ML workloads. You will create self-service provisioning, deploy workflows, and manage lifecycle through APIs and automation.

Responsibilities include building platform primitives, maintaining IaC, enforcing secure SDLC, and driving observability and reliability through incident response and postmortems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on IaC design and operation with modular, reusable approach.
• Strong experience with K8s/OpenShift and core platform components.
• Experience standardizing CI/CD for multi-team environments (GitHub Actions, Argo CD).
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Strong networking fundamentals and security across identity, data, network.
• Software engineering fundamentals and internal tooling automation (Go/Python/TS).
• Experience with containers, Docker, registries, and image pipelines.
• Proven incident response leadership and postmortems.
• Deep observability knowledge: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a secure internal platform for apps and ML workloads.
• Develop self-service capabilities for provisioning, deploying, and lifecycle mgmt via APIs and automation.
• Build platform primitives like K8s clusters, ingress, networking, secrets, policy, identity.
• Maintain IaC for cloud/platform infra with modular design and guardrails.
• Implement CI/CD patterns supporting multiple teams with secure SDLC.
• Provide reference architectures and reusable blocks (Helm, Argo, Terraform modules).
• Enforce security/compliance guardrails while maintaining developer velocity.
• Own platform observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs.
• Drive reliability through incident response, RCAs, postmortems, continuous improvement.
• Support daily operations, identity workflows, vulnerability remediation, and security functions.
• Collaborate with application teams to roadmap platform improvements and time-to-production.
• Lead through influence with technical guidance and mentorship.

Skills

K8s/OpenShift

CI/CD

Cloud providers

Networking basics

Security fundamentals

Programming (Go/Python/TS)

Containers/Docker

Observability tooling

IaC (Terraform/Pulumi/Crossplane)

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Crossplane

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Helm

Datadog

Prometheus

Job description

Munich Re US is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a secure internal platform for running business apps and ML workloads. You will create self-service provisioning, deploy workflows, and manage lifecycle through APIs and automation.

Responsibilities include building platform primitives, maintaining IaC, enforcing secure SDLC, and driving observability and reliability through incident response and postmortems.