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You will help establish standards for job design, logging, monitoring, and audit readiness, supporting a secure, compliant, and automation-first operating model.\nUsing platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, you will automate operational processes, define and monitor service-level objectives (SLOs), improve observability, and lead incident response efforts to minimize downtime and improve system resilience. Your work will help ensure critical workload automation services consistently meet performance expectations and business service level agreements.\nWhat You'll DoPlatform Engineering & Reliability\nOperate and maintain enterprise scheduling controllers and agents across on-premises and cloud environments.\n\nManage calendars, SLAs, alerting, and escalation processes.\n\nDesign resilient restart, recovery, and rerun frameworks for critical workloads.\n\nDefine platform standards, governance practices, SLIs, and SLOs.\n\nLead platform upgrades, configuration management, and lifecycle maintenance.\n\nAutomation & Operational Excellence\nImplement job-as-code and configuration-as-code practices using Git and CI/CD pipelines.\n\nDevelop automation solutions using PowerShell, Python, APIs, SQL, Terraform, and related technologies.\n\nImprove workload orchestration, dependency management, and operational consistency.\n\nBuild monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and health checks to improve visibility and reliability.\n\nLead incident triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.\n\nObservability & Operations\nIntegrate workload automation platforms with monitoring and observability solutions.\n\nBuild dashboards, metrics, and alerts to improve visibility and operational efficiency.\n\nLead incident triage, root cause analysis, recovery efforts, and post-incident improvements.\n\nOptimize workload performance, resource utilization, and platform reliability.\n\nPartnership & Governance\nPartner with application, cloud, database, security, and operations teams to ensure reliable workload execution.\n\nProvide guidance on workload design, scheduling strategies, dependency management, and error handling.\n\nSupport audit, compliance, and operational governance requirements.\n\nDocument standards, playbooks, and best practices while mentoring team members.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n5–8+ years of experience in workload automation, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), production operations, or related environments.\n\nHands-on experience with Stonebranch preferred, or another enterprise workload automation platform such as BMC Control-M, AutoSys, ESP, CA-7, IBM Workload Scheduler (TWS), Redwood RunMyJobs, ActiveBatch, JAMS, Tidal, Automic (UC4), or OpCon.\n\nExperience supporting enterprise batch processing, dependency modeling, workload orchestration, SLA management, and recovery processes.\n\nStrong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, REST APIs, JSON, and YAML.\n\nExperience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar) and automation (Ansible, JFrog Artifactory, etc).\n\nStrong AWS experience, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, VPC networking, observability, and high-availability architectures.\n\nProven design and implementation of restart/rerun patterns, dependency modeling, and idempotent batch frameworks.\n\nExcellent coordination skills across incident and change processes, with clear, concise communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nStrong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries.\n\nExperience standardizing workload automation platforms and operational governance practices.\n\nExperience integrating workload automation platforms with enterprise monitoring and observability solutions.\n\nAWS, ITIL, CISSP, or related certifications.\n\nHow Success Will Be Measured\nReduced SLA jeopardy events, breaches, and recovery times (MTTR).\n\nIncreased adoption of standardized job templates, recovery patterns, and automated validation checks.\n\nImproved audit readiness through consistent logging, documentation, and evidence collection.\n\nReduced manual intervention and alert noise while improving workload completion rates and platform reliability.\n\nPay TransparencySalary Range: [[cust_salaryRangePosting]]\nOvertime eligible: [[customString6]]Discretionary bonus eligible: [[cust_merit]]\nSales bonus eligible: [[stockPackage]]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.\nCompany OverviewAt New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.\nOur diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.\nAs a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.\nOur BenefitsWe 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 hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.\nOur Commitment to Inclusion\nAt 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.\nRecognized 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. 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