Senior Workload Automation Engineer – Platform & SRE

New York Life; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Life is seeking an engineering owner for its enterprise workload automation platform to ensure the reliability, scalability, and resilience of scheduling and batch processing across on‑premises and cloud environments.

In this role, you will operate and enhance enterprise scheduling platforms, calendars, and workload orchestration services while designing resilient restart and recovery patterns that enable critical business processes to run predictably.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience in workload automation, platform engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Hands-on experience with enterprise workload automation platforms such as Stonebranch or other major tools.
• Experience supporting enterprise batch processing, dependency modeling, workload orchestration, SLA management, and recovery processes.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, REST APIs, JSON, and YAML.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar) and automation tools (Ansible, JFrog Artifactory, etc).
• Strong AWS experience, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, VPC networking, observability, and high-availability architectures.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain enterprise scheduling controllers and agents across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Manage calendars, SLAs, alerting, and escalation processes.
• Design resilient restart, recovery, and rerun frameworks for critical workloads.
• Define platform standards, governance practices, SLIs, and SLOs.
• Lead platform upgrades, configuration management, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Build monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and health checks to improve visibility and reliability.
• Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE practices

Incident response

Communication

Tools

Stonebranch

BMC Control-M

AutoSys

ESP

CA-7

IBM Workload Scheduler (TWS)

Redwood RunMyJobs

ActiveBatch

JAMS

Tidal

Automic (UC4)

OpCon

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Ansible

JFrog Artifactory

PowerShell

Python

Bash

SQL

REST APIs

JSON

YAML

AWS

Job description

New York Life is seeking an engineering owner for its enterprise workload automation platform to ensure the reliability, scalability, and resilience of scheduling and batch processing across on‑premises and cloud environments.

In this role, you will operate and enhance enterprise scheduling platforms, calendars, and workload orchestration services while designing resilient restart and recovery patterns that enable critical business processes to run predictably.