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Corporate Vice President - Cloud Site Reliability Engineer Leader

New York Life · New York, United States · 3 days ago
Engineering$185k/yrFull-time

About the role

As part of our Technology organization, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's (NYL) digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth — driving the company's success.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the team towards excellence in the solutions they develop and deliver
  • Manage and monitor the efficiency of the team, identifying and developing opportunities for improvement
  • Identify opportunities for the use of GenAI and Agentic AI within the scope of the team’s responsibilities, freeing the team to focus on more important work
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, drive engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with software development teams
  • Modernize and normalize the fleet of application systems with a focus on resiliency and reliability, operational excellence, availability, operational excellence, security, and cost
  • Be a leader within the organization by setting the standard on the use of automation, including IaC, CI/CD Pipelines, and Artifact Management
  • Build and mature self-service infrastructure provisioning capabilities that allow application teams to consume approved AWS infrastructure patterns within enterprise guardrails
  • Architect, provision, and maintain cloud resources using Terraform, Harness, Jfrog, and other enterprise platforms
  • Reduce manual toil by building robust deployment pipelines and automation using Harness CI/CD
  • Set Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs); track error budgets to balance feature delivery with system stability
  • Lead triage and resolution for high-severity production issues, conducting blameless post-mortems and root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch, NewRelic)
  • Drive infrastructure resiliency and participate in disaster recovery planning and validation in partnership with application and operations teams

Requirements

  • Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams to adopt automation and delivery pipelines
  • Displays empathy for the software development community and champions continuous improvement to optimize the end-to-end software delivery process
  • Partner with the Cloud Platform, Development Tools, Security, and other technology teams within the organization to drive roadmaps to enable the SRE team
  • Create and maintain a culture of open communication, trust, excellence, and recognition
  • Ability to translate cloud architecture, security, compliance, and governance standards into scalable infrastructure patterns and automated engineering solutions
  • Proficiency and experience with Terraform HCL (IaC)
  • In depth technical knowledge of Kubernetes, AWS Services, Terraform, and one or more software development frameworks
  • 8+ years in IT/DevOps/SRE with 3+ years in a technical leadership or senior role

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
  • One or more AWS Professional Certifications, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred
  • 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
  • 8+ years in IT/DevOps/SRE with 3+ years in a technical leadership or senior role

Skills

  • Strong foundation in OS performance tuning, networking, and security troubleshooting

Benefits

Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $185,000-$264,500
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.

Company Overview

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.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities.

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