Sr. Platform Engineer

Munich Reinsurance America, Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 147,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k match

Paid time off 24 days

Dental and vision

Job summary

Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a secure internal platform for business applications and ML workloads at scale.

You will develop self-service capabilities and standardized APIs, templates, and automation, while building reusable platform primitives and ensuring secure, compliant SDLC practices. Collaboration with application teams and mentoring peers are key aspects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on IaC design and operation for modular, reusable platforms.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and core platform components.
• Experience standardizing CI/CD for multi-team environments (GitHub Actions, Argo CD).
• Experience with major Cloud Providers (Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Strong networking, security, and observability fundamentals.
• Experience building internal tooling and automation (Go, Python, TypeScript).
• Experience with containers, registries, and image pipelines.
• Excellent Linux knowledge and operational troubleshooting.
• Proven incident response leadership and post-incident improvements.
• Deep observability knowledge (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a secure internal platform for business apps and ML workloads at scale.
• Develop self-service capabilities and standardized APIs, templates, and automation.
• Build reusable platform primitives (K8s clusters, ingress, networking, secrets, policy, identity).
• Maintain IaC for modular design with versioning, policy guardrails, and safe rollouts.
• Implement platform CI/CD patterns for multiple teams with secure SDLC practices.
• Provide reference architectures and building blocks (Helm, Argo CD apps, Terraform modules).
• Implement security guardrails (policy-as-code, least privilege, image provenance).
• Own platform observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs.
• Improve reliability via incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems.
• Support daily operations, security, and identity workflows of the platform stack.
• Partner with application teams to prioritize platform roadmap and improve developer experience.
• Lead through influence, providing technical guidance and mentorship.
• Commit to continuous learning to act as SME in domain.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Networking

Security

Go

Python

TypeScript

Linux

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Crossplane

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Docker

Job description

Job Description

• Design, build, and operate a secure and reliable internal platform for running business applications and machine learning workloads at scale.
• Develop and maintain self‑service capabilities (golden paths) for provisioning infrastructure, deploying workloads, and managing the application lifecycle through standardized APIs, templates, and automation.
• Build and evolve reusable platform primitives such as K8s clusters, ingress, service networking, secrets management, policy controls, and identity integration.
• Maintain cloud and platform infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane) in a secure, scalable, and reusable manner, including modular design, versioning, policy guardrails, automated validation, and safe rollout practices.
• Implement and maintain platform‑level CI/CD patterns that support multiple teams while enforcing secure and compliant SDLC practices.
• Provide opinionated reference architectures and reusable building blocks (e.g., Helm charts, Argo CD apps, Terraform modules, scaffolding tools) that enable consistent delivery.
• Implement guardrails for security and compliance (policy‑as‑code, least privilege, workload identity, image provenance, runtime controls) while maintaining developer velocity.
• Own platform observability by establishing monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLO practices to keep the developer platform stable and measurable.
• Drive platform reliability and operational excellence through incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, and continuous improvement to reduce toil.
• Support daily operations, monitoring, and security functions of the platform stack, including routine maintenance, access and identity workflows, vulnerability remediation, and operational support for internal platform services.
• Partner closely with application teams and stakeholders to understand friction points, prioritize the platform roadmap, and deliver measurable improvements in developer experience and time‑to‑production.
• Lead through influence and consensus, providing technical guidance, reviews, and mentorship to peers and junior engineers.
• Own your professional development, continuously learning new technologies and domain context to operate as a subject matter expert (SME).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience designing and operating platform services using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or CSP‑native tooling) with a modular, reusable approach.
• Strong experience with K8s or OpenShift and core platform components, including networking, ingress, service discovery, storage, RBAC, admission control, and multi‑tenancy.
• Experience implementing and standardizing CI/CD for multi‑team environments, ideally with GitHub Actions and Argo CD, including release strategies and deployment automation.
• Experience with at least one major Cloud Service Provider such as Azure, GCP, or AWS.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing, and private connectivity.
• Strong security foundations across identity, application, data, network, and supply‑chain security, including scanning, signing, SBOM, secrets handling, and policy enforcement.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building internal tooling and automation, ideally in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Experience with containers and container tooling, including Docker, registries, and image build pipelines.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux operating systems and operational troubleshooting.
• Proven experience leading incident response, including triage, mitigation, coordination across teams, and driving post‑incident improvements.
• Deep knowledge of observability tooling and practices, such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical abilities, with excellent communication and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

Salary Range

$147,000 - 170,000, plus an opportunity for an annual company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay.

Benefits

• Two options for your health insurance plan (PPO or High Deductible).
• Prescription drug coverage (included in your health insurance plan).
• Vision and dental insurance plans.
• Additional insurance coverages provided at no cost to you, such as basic life insurance equal to 1x annual salary and AD&D coverage that is equal to 1x annual salary.
• Short and Long‑Term Disability coverage.
• Supplemental Life and AD&D plans that you can purchase for yourself and dependents (includes Spouse/domestic partner and children).
• Voluntary Benefit plans that supplement your health and life insurance plans (Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity).
• A robust 401k plan with up to a 6% employer match.
• Paid time off that begins with 24 days each year, with more days added when you celebrate milestone service anniversaries.
• Eligibility to receive a yearly bonus as a Munich Re employee.
• A variety of health and wellness programs provided at no cost, including a gym fitness reimbursement.
• Paid time off for eligible family care needs.
• Tuition assistance and educational achievement bonuses.
• A corporate matching gifts program that further enhances your charitable donation.
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.