Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter 

Role Overview

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting secure, scalable, and highly automated cloud infrastructure and CI/CD solutions that enable efficient software delivery across the enterprise. This role partners closely with software engineers, infrastructure teams, security, and data science teams to improve application reliability, accelerate deployment pipelines, and enable AI/ML workloads in production. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in cloud technologies, Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and DevSecOps practices while driving operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement, and optimize secure CI/CD pipelines using Harness and related DevOps tooling to improve deployment speed, quality, and reliability across multiple development teams.

• Build, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS services while implementing Infrastructure as Code best practices to support scalable, resilient, and repeatable environments.

• Develop and support containerized application platforms using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring high availability, performance, and operational excellence across production environments.

• Implement enterprise observability solutions by integrating monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as New Relic, Prometheus, and Grafana to proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues.

• Automate operational processes using Python, Bash, PowerShell, and other scripting languages while integrating security controls, AI-enabled DevOps capabilities, and DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

What You'll Bring:

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related cloud engineering role supporting enterprise applications.

• Strong hands-on experience designing and managing AWS cloud environments, including services such as EC2, S3, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda, VPC, Security Groups, Route 53, ELB, EKS, ECR, Inspector, and AWS RDS.

• Demonstrated expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, containerization using Docker, Kubernetes orchestration, and modern CI/CD platforms including Harness, Jenkins, Git, SonarQube, and JFrog Artifactory.

• Experience developing automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy, or Java, with the ability to build self-service DevOps capabilities and automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, collaboration, and communication skills with experience working across development, operations, infrastructure, security, and data science teams.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting AI/ML operational workloads, including deployment of machine learning models and familiarity with Generative AI, LLMs, and AI-assisted DevOps tools such as Harness AI.

• Professional certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.

• Experience with enterprise database platforms including PostgreSQL, Oracle, and AWS RDS, as well as distributed systems observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic.

• Experience supporting legacy application modernization, including integration with Java, .NET, Angular, COBOL, and Mainframe technologies.

Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $90,000-$128,500 

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.

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 here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. 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. Click here to learn more about New York Life’s leadership in this space.​

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

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Job Requisition ID: 94308