New York Life Insurance Co

VP, Cloud Platform Engineering Leader

New York Life Insurance Co$250K — $300K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • One or more AWS certifications
  • Expert in AWS Well Architected Framework
  • In-depth knowledge of API development and standards
  • Practical experience with ML/AI driven developer experiences
  • Technical knowledge of Kubernetes, AWS Services, Terraform, and software development frameworks
  • At least five years of leadership and software development experience
  • Ten years of building and supporting AWS cloud services in large enterprise environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering teams for core cloud infrastructure, networking, and container orchestration
  • Define vision and roadmap for a self-service, secure, and highly available cloud platform
  • Ensure operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and incident management
  • Collaborate with security teams to build compliant and secure platforms
  • Streamline development-to-deployment lifecycle to enhance developer velocity
  • Lead modernization efforts, including infrastructure-as-code and service mesh adoption
  • Recruit and mentor a world-class team of platform engineers
  • Use Kubernetes to manage and maintain resilient solutions for application development
  • Engage in Agile ceremonies to ensure continuous product delivery
  • Enhance cybersecurity processes to detect vulnerabilities
  • Build relationships to improve cross-technical contributions
  • Review service management metrics and address any deviations
  • Maintain product catalog for infrastructure services and cost control

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including leave programs
  • Adoption assistance and student loan repayment programs
  • Continuous refinement of benefits based on employee feedback
  • Support for work-life balance and personal growth
Full Job Description
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week

Job Summary:

As the Cloud Platform Engineering Leader, you will lead a team of engineers devoted to creating highly resilient hybrid cloud platforms to support NYL's business operations. The platforms include distributed systems, virtualization, public cloud AWS/Azure), and Kubernetes. In this role you will drive our multiyear strategy to ensure our platforms are evergreen and evolving to support ongoing NYL modernization programs. Stakeholder engagement is a critical success factor.

A successful leader is a close partner with NYL Technology Leaders and is ahead of the demand for modern self-provisioned infrastructure as code (IaC) platforms. A comprehensive GenAI Strategy is essential for delivering capabilities rapidly while reducing operating costs. We're aggressively modernizing our core platforms which requires active leadership and the ability to transform our infrastructure services to leverage public cloud and micro services architectures.

Define the infrastructure technology roadmap that includes deliverables focused on the continued improvement of the supported solutions, and empowering a DevOps culture through the use of automated platform capabilities underpinning customer-focused product engineering and development.

Primary responsibilities:
  • Lead the engineering teams responsible for core cloud infrastructure, compute, networking, container orchestration, and internal platform services
  • Define and drive the vision, architecture, and roadmap for a self-service, secure, and highly available cloud platform
  • Ensure a high standard of operational excellence through automation, monitoring, observability, incident management, and capacity planning
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to build platforms that are secure by design and meet regulatory standards
  • Partner with Developer Experience and SRE to streamline the development-to-deployment lifecycle and improve developer velocity
  • Lead modernization efforts such as infrastructure-as-code, service mesh adoption, multi-cloud strategy, or internal platform APIs
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop a world-class team of platform engineers and engineering leaders
  • Manage the Cloud Engineering, Storage, and Compute environment
  • Serve as a thought leader, driving the AWS architecture and strategy
  • Execute successful program delivery by defining objectives, aligning resources, leveraging GenAI, and fostering collaboration and contributions across teams to ensure impactful outcomes
  • Leverage Kubernetes (AWS EKS) technology to deploy, install, upgrade, patch, and maintain resilient, reliable solutions for developing, testing, securing, and shipping software applications to production
  • Evolve infrastructure to be deployed via pipelines whereby cloud services, IaC code, base images, yaml files are integrated to create full stack patterns raising the level of infrastructure abstraction to the point where software developers focused on business capabilities
  • Actively engage in Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming, and performance metric tracking to ensure continuous delivery of high-quality products
  • Improve NYL Cyber Security through efficient processes to detect and remediate vulnerabilities and non-standard configurations in infrastructure services
  • Build and maintain strong relationships to promote cross-tech contributions focused on improving developer experience
  • Review monthly service management and consumption metrics for your products and services and address any deviations or SLA deficiencies
  • Maintain and enhance the product and service catalog for infrastructure services including monthly updates to consumers providing advice on cost control levers
  • Benchmark your product per unit costs annually to maintain competitive and accurate pricing.


Business & Technology Skills:
  • Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams to adopt infrastructure shared services
  • Highly collaborative and effective in building guilds and collaboration channels which raise the organizations level of effectiveness in software development
  • Displays empathy for the software development community and champions continuous improvement to optimize the end-to-end software delivery process
  • AI first approach to developer experience


Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
  • One or more AWS certifications
  • Expert in AWS Well Architected Framework
  • Indepth knowledge of API development and standards
  • Practical experience in developing and deploying ML/AI driven developer experiences
  • In depth technical knowledge of Kubernetes, AWS Services, Terraform, and one or more software development frameworks
  • At least five years of leadership experience
  • At least five years of software development experience
  • 10 years' experience building and supporting AWS cloud services in large enterprise environments


Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $250,000 - $300,000

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Job Requisition ID: 92834

About New York Life Insurance Co

New York Life Insurance Company is a mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the life insurers in the world, ranking #88 on the 2014 Fortune 500 list with over $540 billion in total assets under management, and more than $19 billion in surplus and AVR. New York Life and its subsidiaries provide insurance, investment, and retirement solutions. For 175 years, the company has been helping people put their love into action. It was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in New York.

New York Life Insurance Co Careers

Join the esteemed team at New York Life Insurance Co, a leader in the insurance industry, and propel your career to new heights with unparalleled job opportunities. As one of the most respected names in life insurance, we offer a platform where professionalism meets innovation, creating an environment ripe for personal and professional growth.

Work You’ll Do

At New York Life Insurance Co, you will be part of a culture that cherishes diversity and fosters leadership. Our team is composed of skilled professionals dedicated to providing financial security and peace of mind to our clients. By joining us, you will collaborate with top-tier experts in finance and insurance, leveraging your skills to make a meaningful impact.

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Whether you are seeking an internship, a full-time position, or a leadership role, New York Life Insurance Co provides a variety of career paths to help you achieve your professional goals. Our commitment to career development is evident through extensive training programs and continuous learning opportunities that ensure our team remains at the forefront of the industry.

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Embrace the opportunity to lead projects that drive innovation within the company and the insurance industry. New York Life Insurance Co is at the intersection of tradition and innovation, where we constantly strive to develop solutions that anticipate the needs of our clients.

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Our team at New York Life Insurance Co is our greatest asset. We thrive on collaboration and respect each other’s contributions, creating a supportive and inclusive workplace. Here, networking and mentorship go hand in hand with day-to-day operations, providing a robust support system for career advancement.

Future-Proof Your Career

With New York Life Insurance Co, your career is future-proofed with endless opportunities for advancement. Our comprehensive benefits package supports your life both inside and outside of work, while our leadership and diversity training prepare you to take on new challenges.

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