Senior Associate - AWS Cloud Data Platform Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

$82,500 - $140,000/Yr

New York Life - Lebanon, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Lebanon, NJ

5,001-10,000 employees

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Associate - AWS Cloud Data Platform Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role at New York Life involves building and maintaining a core data, reporting, and analytics platform for the Insurance & Agency Group. The position focuses on ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud-based data infrastructure using AWS services, while contributing to innovative initiatives that enhance the company's digital landscape.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to proactively detect and resolve incidents.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Manage incident response, including on-call rotations, triaging, and escalation.
• Create and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
• Automate deployments, scaling, backups, and disaster recovery processes.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth deployment and rollback processes.
• Analyze performance metrics and optimize infrastructure and application performance.
• Define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
• Conduct capacity planning and scaling to manage anticipated loads.
• Implement security best practices, including network security, IAM policies, and encryption.
• Conduct security audits and compliance checks to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Respond to security incidents and implement remediation measures.
• Work with development teams to ensure services are reliable, scalable, and easily monitored.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Identify and implement improvements to operational processes and workflows.
• Design, implement, and test disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Ensure regular backups and replication to minimize data loss and downtime.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer.
• 1+ years of experience with AWS services (AWS S3, EC2, Glue, Redshift, RDS) in shared service or hybrid environments.
• Proficiency in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) and automation tools (Terraform).
• Experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with exposure to Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) fields.
• Exposure to industry-standard Data Governance processes and procedures.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, or a related field is preferred but not required.

Benefits

• Leave programs
• Adoption assistance
• Student loan repayment programs
• Comprehensive benefit options