Senior Associate, Sr Developer Engineer (DevSecOps and GenAI)

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

Our New York Life culture has laid the foundation for over 175 years of commitment to our employees, agents, policy owners, and the communities where we live and work. Here you become a valued part of a welcoming, inclusive, and caring organization with a long-standing legacy in stability and growth. The strength revolves around our diversified, multi-dimensional business portfolio that goes beyond life insurance.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide an environment where you can explore your career ambitions, offering opportunities to tackle meaningful challenges and stretch your skills while balancing work and life priorities.  You will be part of an inclusive team guided by our belief to always be there for each other–providing the support and flexibility to grow and reach new heights while making an impact in the lives of others.

You are our future, and we commit to investing in you accordingly.

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As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's 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.

The Foundational Business at New York Life provides life insurance and investment products to our customers through a network of over 12,000 licensed agents. Technology and digital are central to our agent, customer and employee needs and as these evolve our Technology organization is transforming rapidly.

New York Life is embarking on a significant digital evolution which demands robust digital capabilities, exceptional user experience and connected data. To execute on our strategic plans, we have launched Blueprint. At the heart of this program sits our Operational Model consisting of Value Streams (VS) and Centers for Enablement (C4E) powered by our Scaled-Agile delivery execution model.

Summary

We are seeking an energetic and passionate Senior DevSecOps engineer with GenAI expertise to design and execute our company’s modern digital transformation strategy. As a key member of our core system team, you will work with talented engineers, architects, data scientists and end users to reimagine, design and build the next generation of Insurance applications and solutions in the cloud leveraging ancient and modern technologies and platforms including AWS, APIs, and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

You will assist in the design, development, and deployment of scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems, taking advantage of leading-edge technologies through experimentation and iterative refinement. You will assist other team members in building and executing automation that effectively and repeatably ensures quality, security, integrity, and maintainability of our solutions. You will also be responsible for the evaluation of key attributes of existing application architectures, evolve and enhance the foundation, participate in product ideation and technology stack evaluation and recommendations.

In addition, this position will work with our various Centers for Enablement (C4Es) to provide two-way feedback on how we can improve the overall engagement and services between C4Es and Value Streams aligning and delivering to common goals that drive increased levels of business value, in an accelerated manner while meeting and exceeding Technology’s

What you’ll do:

• Engage in collaborative relationships across architecture, product management, data, and product delivery teams to design, implement solutions based on defined business challenges and outcomes.
• Build best-in-industry Digital experiences that are truly omni-channel, agile and scalable leveraging leading-edge technology and reusable components and services.
• Apply software engineering principles to develop scalable, reliable and robust solutions, identify self-service opportunities and solutions to bring quantifiable value for Value streams.
• Apply Generative AI experience to enhance Developer experience and Developer productivity.
• Enable continuous integration and deployment automation solutions across various applications within Value streams as per technology stack.
• Accountable for designing, building, and optimizing automation systems that help to execute business web and data infrastructure platforms.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for automation of mobile application development
• Troubleshoot issues and work with team to identify and address problems.
• Active participant in relevant communities of practice to exchange ideas and knowledge 

What you’ll bring:

• 8-10 years of firsthand engineering experience with DevSecOps in implementing CI/CD pipelines on Java, Dot Net, python, Databases and other technologies.
• Excellent Experience in automation on AWS using Terraform.
• Excellent experience on EKS/ECR and related containerization framework
• Experience with scripting languages like Python, bash, YAML, Groovy, Jenkins templates.
• Experience in building/deploying Generative AI RAG use cases.
• Proficiency in developing common reusable templates and patterns for various technologies to enhance Developer experience
• Significant knowledge of AWS systems, including EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Lambda, Security Groups, VPCs, Inspector, EKS and containers etc.
• Build and maintain an AWS cloud infrastructure architecture aligning security, compliance, performance and resilience.
• Experience in RBAC, SSO integrations and designing/installing tools by considering performance & providing scale up solutions on AWS.
• Experience with database technologies for structured and unstructured data
• Experience with relevant code repository and project tools such as GitHub, JIRA, Confluence
• Ability to integrate APIs, create automated test cases, perform Unit Testing (UT) and System Integration testing (SIT)
• Experience with developing Cloud-native applications and incredibly good understanding of Cloud architecture and best practices
• Solid understanding of Agile application delivery methodologies and release management activities

Desired Skills:

• Solid understanding of the insurance, wealth management or financial services industry
• Knowledge of scripting tools on multiple platforms preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience on DevSecOps platforms like Harness.io a plus
• Ability to incorporate vendor components in the application build-out.
• Extensive hands-on development experience with AWS Cloud and Storage services are desirable.
• Experience in developing solutions leveraging LLMs a plus.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies like Agentic AI a plus

Education / Training

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an Engineering discipline
• Certification in DevSecOps, Generative AI a plus.
• Certification in data management (structure and unstructured), and/or cloud architecture or engineering plus

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:  $95,000-$162,500 

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: 91308