Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable, Self-Service Platform

Next Insurance, Inc.

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 147,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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