Senior Associate - Cloud Engineer

New York Life is seeking an experienced and skilled Cloud Engineer that will be a member of the Cloud Services team and drive cross-functional technology for delivering projects on an IaaS platform. The role involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies to enhance productivity and streamline processes while ensuring collaboration between development and operations teams.

Responsibilities:

• Build best-in-industry Developer experiences that are truly omni-channel, agile and scalable leveraging leading-edge technology and reusable components and services
• Understanding of FinOps principles and desire for continued learning
• Develops ad hoc and on-going cloud financial forecasts and models that assist in making decisions, effectively communicating trends and outcomes
• Partners with exceptional software engineering and data teams to curate enterprise-wide reporting, applicable to all technology stakeholders
• Create complex management reports and associated analyses that explain financial results or changes to the forecast or plan, investigating discrepancies and trends to identify business drivers of results. Review the analysis and reports developed by other teammates and contribute to culture of continuous feedback
• Work closely with frontend engineers to build a self-service web platform that will improve developer experience and reduce SDLC turnaround time
• Bridge the gap between development and operations, ensuring collaboration and efficient tooling for engineering teams and developers
• Provide expert knowledge on infrastructure automation approaches and platforms, to ensure our organization achieves its goals and roadmap for automation adoption. This involves translating organizational strategy and architecture into efficient, resilient, and secure technical implementations
• Design, build, deliver, maintain and improve infrastructure solutions. This includes automation strategies such as IaC, configuration-as-code, policy-as-code, release orchestration and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and collaborative ways of working (e.g., DevOps)
• Research and prototype new tools and technologies to enhance automation platform capabilities. Proactively identify innovative ways to reduce toil, and teach, coach or mentor others to improve organizational outcomes using automation
• Work closely with security specialists to design, implement and test security controls, and ensure automation activities align with security configuration guidance
• Design, implement and manage scalable Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS to support cloud native applications
• Drive automation to replace manual operations and existing processes
• Provide Production Support for Cloud Platform and Cloud Platform related incidents
• Collaborate with Cloud Architects and Solution Engineers to deliver solutions and projects
• Support resilience activities — e.g., disaster recovery (DR) testing, chaos and performance testing, and tabletop planning exercises
• Must be self-directed and willing to learn new tools and services to stay up to date with our evolving platforms
• Ability to communicate to non-technical and technical resources

Requirements:

• 6+ yrs of overall IT experience
• 4+ yrs with Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) services and platforms, AWS
• 3+ yrs of experience with containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• 3+ yrs of automating solutions and implementation of highly scalable, highly available services using terraform
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in data analysis or financial analysis, preferably in a cloud environment or with cloud cost management
• Working knowledge and experience with Harness CCM
• Working knowledge of DevOps and delivery tools (GitHub), Jenkins
• Strong knowledge of Java based frameworks, microservices
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Executive presence with high business & technical acumen
• Strong facilitation skills for large-scale events and workshops
• Solid understanding/experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and technical/product teams
• Must have AWS Solution Architect or Sys Ops certification
• FinOps certification is preferred
• Bachelor's degree in related field is a plus, but not required