Sr. Platform Engineer

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

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.

About Munich Re

Together, we engage with everything we have and are, to help humankind act braver and better.

As the world’s leading reinsurance company with more than 40,000 employees in over 50 locations around the globe, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into manageable risk, we enable fundamental change. We recognize Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as a key priority with a culture that welcomes different thoughts and opinions. We dare to think big and are continuously innovating on behalf of our clients.

Our data, our technology, and our teams place us in a unique position to drive transformative change in the life insurance industry. We invest strategically in our world class talent, offering our employees a work experience that promotes professional development, innovation, and rewards high performance.

The base salary range anticipated for this position is $147,000 - 170,000, plus an opportunity for an annual company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay.

The salary estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for candidates hired in this position. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role.

What Can We Offer You?

We are proud to offer our employees, their domestic partners, and their children, a wide range of insurance 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).

In addition to the above insurance offerings, our employees also enjoy:

• 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.

Please note that only candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted directly. We thank all candidates for their interest.

At Munich Re US, we see Diversity and Inclusion as a solution to the challenges and opportunities all around us. Our goal is to foster an inclusive culture and build a workforce that reflects the customers we serve and the communities in which we live and work. We strive to provide a workplace where all of our colleagues feel respected, valued and empowered to achieve their very best every day. We recruit and develop talent with a focus on providing our customers the most innovative products and services. We are an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.