Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

 

Our New York Life culture has laid the foundation for over 180 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.

As part of AI&D, 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 Enterprise Data Management (EDM) team is looking for a motivated AWS DevOps Engineer to assist in the deployment, monitoring, and support of our cloud-based data platform. This role is ideal for early-career professionals eager to develop their cloud and DevOps skills in a collaborative, learning-oriented environment.

You will work closely with senior engineers to support infrastructure automation, CI/CD practices, and cloud resource management, with a focus on operational excellence, security, and performance.


What you’ll do:


Monitoring and Operations Support

• Assist in managing monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
• Participate in daily operations, incident response, and root cause documentation.
• Help triage and escalate issues as needed, with support from senior team members.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Support the creation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
• Contribute to automating routine cloud operations (e.g., deployments, snapshots).

CI/CD Enablement

• Assist in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Help troubleshoot deployment issues and work with development teams to improve pipeline efficiency.

Cloud Resource Management

• Support provisioning and configuration of AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and IAM.
• Learn and apply security and cost optimization best practices in cloud environments.

Collaboration & Learning

• Work under the guidance of senior DevOps engineers to deliver reliable and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Participate in team retrospectives and process improvements.
• Actively pursue learning opportunities to advance AWS and DevOps skills.

What you’ll bring:

• 1–2 years of experience or strong internship experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, or cloud support role.
• Basic familiarity with AWS core services (e.g., EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Exposure to scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) and automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible).
• Understanding of source control and CI/CD pipelines (Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving mindset and willingness to learn.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred (or equivalent hands-on experience).

 

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:  $65,000-$110,000 

Overtime eligible: Exempt