Sr. Staff DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Gerber Life Insurance Company; City of White Plains (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Gerber Life Insurance Company in White Plains, NY is seeking a Senior Staff DevOps & Cloud Engineer to lead enterprise DevOps and Cloud initiatives. The role combines architecture, automation, CI/CD, cloud modernization, containerization, and delivery with hands-on involvement.

You'll set technical direction for a small team, embed security into CI/CD, and collaborate across source control, artifact management, code scanning, and deployment practices while balancing strategic leadership with

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant DevOps/Cloud Engineering experience, including technical lead experience
• 7+ years leading DevOps/Cloud engineers in Agile/Scrum environments, with JIRA
• Hands-on Jenkins experience including pipeline architecture and deployment automation
• Hands-on SonarQube experience for static code analysis and quality gates
• Experience with container security tooling (Prisma Cloud or equivalent)
• Experience securing software supply chain with Nexus Repository and Sonatype Repository Firewall or similar
• Experience embedding security gates (SAST, SCA, container scanning) into CI/CD pipelines
• Strong cloud architecture experience with Azure, containerized workloads, and modernization of on-prem delivery

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a small DevOps and Cloud Engineering team
• Set standards and strategies across source control, artifact management, code scanning, and security gates
• Lead CI/CD, security integration, and cloud adoption initiatives
• Hands-on involvement in architecture, automation, and deployment engineering
• Collaborate across teams to ensure secure and efficient software delivery

Skills

DevOps leadership

Agile/Scrum

JIRA

CI/CD automation

Tools

Jenkins

Git/Bitbucket

Nexus Repository

SonarQube

Docker

Prisma Cloud

Azure DevOps

Sonatype Repository Firewall

Job description

| Fremont, MI | Onsite or | White Plains, NY | Onsite

Join Gerber Life Insurance Company — Somewhere You Want to Be

Gerber Life Insurance Company, a member company of Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern), is committed to helping families protect what matters most. With career opportunities in Fremont, MI, and White Plains, NY, and select roles in Cincinnati, OH, Gerber Life Insurance Company offers associates the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work while building rewarding careers.

We’re hiring a Sr. Staff DevOps & Cloud Engineer to join Gerber Life and help lead the continued evolution of our enterprise DevOps and Cloud Engineering capabilities.

This is a senior, hands‑on technical leadership role for someone who can set technical direction while remaining actively involved in architecture, automation, CI/CD, cloud modernization, containerization, and engineering delivery.

Minimum experience we’re looking for:

• 15+ years of relevant DevOps / Cloud Engineering experience, including significant experience serving as a technical lead for a comparable DevOps/Cloud engineering team
• 7+ years leading DevOps and Cloud engineers in an Agile/Scrum environment, including experience with JIRA
• Strong hands‑on Jenkins experience, including pipeline architecture, shared libraries, integrations, and deployment automation
• Hands‑on experience with SonarQube for static code analysis, quality gates, security issue identification and remediation workflows, and developer feedback
• Experience with container vulnerability scanning and image security, ideally using tools such as Prisma Cloud or equivalent
• Experience securing the software supply chain, including artifact/dependency management with Nexus Repository and preferably Sonatype Repository Firewall or similar technology
• Demonstrated experience embedding SAST, SCA, container scanning, dependency governance, and security gates into CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience with cloud architecture, Azure, containerized workloads, and modernization of on-premise application delivery

Core technologies:

Jenkins, Git/Bitbucket, Nexus Repository, SonarQube, Docker, Prisma Cloud or comparable security tooling, JIRA, Azure DevOps, Sonatype Repository Firewall, Maven/npm/NuGet.

Additional experience valued:

Java, Angular, Kubernetes, WebSphere/Liberty, Jetty, NGINX, Elasticsearch/Kibana/Logstash, serverless technologies, and other application security/code-scanning platforms.e role will provide technical leadership for a small team of DevOps and Cloud Engineers while helping establish standards and strategies across source control, branching, artifact management, code scanning, application security, software supply‑chain security, automated testing, deployments, containers, orchestration, and cloud adoption.

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable operating at both levels — setting enterprise technical direction and getting hands‑on when needed.

If your background aligns with these requirements, we’d be interested in hearing from you.