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New York Life Insurance Company · 2 hours ago

Senior Associate - DevOps/MLOps Platform Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$121K/yr - $172K/yr

6+ years exp

New York Life Insurance Company is a company that values career development and innovation. The role involves contributing to the design, build, and support of a modern MLOps platform, while developing secure, scalable CI/CD workflows for data and machine learning applications.

FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design, build, and support of a modern MLOps platform used across AI & Data teams

Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable DevOps and MLOps CI/CD workflows for data/ML applications and services

Develop and maintain on prem and AWS based data/ML infrastructure, including containerized training/inference and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow)

Partner with Technology (IT), SRE, and Security to integrate networking, identity, secrets management, and observability; ensure compliance and governance

Serve as a platform subject matter expert—contribute to solution design, codify best practices, and produce clear documentation/runbooks

Work independently and collaboratively as a part of a team

Support Scrum ceremonies by contributing to story creation and sprint goals

Effectively articulate information and ideas to a diverse group of people

Stay up to date with the latest MLOps trends/emerging technologies and look for opportunities to improve the stack

Qualification

MLOps platform designAWS cloud expertiseCI/CD workflowsContainer orchestrationSQL proficiencyPython programmingTerraform proficiencyAgile mindsetCommunicationTeam collaboration

Required

6+ years of industry experience in software engineering, data engineering, DevOps, MLOps or a related field

Expert-level experience with cloud compute environments (AWS) along with cloud-native tools; proficiency in Terraform a must

Experience with containers (Docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes) and process orchestration/DAGs (e.g., Airflow)

Strong experience with AWS (e.g., EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch) and cloud native tooling; familiarity with SageMaker or equivalent a plus

Solid understanding of CI/CD and DevSecOps best practices; experience with Git branching strategies, PR/code review, and artifact/security scanning (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI)

Good command of SQL and with familiarity with an RDBMS

Experience supporting both batch and real time inference (REST/gRPC, streaming)

Proficiency in Python and Bash; working knowledge of Terraform and Helm for IaC

Have an agile mindset

Strong written and verbal communication; ability to work independently with minimal supervision while collaborating effectively in a team

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience

Preferred

Understanding of ML frameworks (sklearn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc)

Experience with big data/lakehouse platforms (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, Hadoop/Spark, EMR)

Experience in insurance or financial services and familiarity with model validation and governance in regulated environments

Benefits

Leave programs

Adoption assistance

Student loan repayment programs

Company

New York Life Insurance Company

For over 180 years, we’ve helped turn your biggest dreams into milestones that last a lifetime.

Founded in 1845

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.newyorklife.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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