Senior Associate - Workload Automation Engineer

Job description

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter Role Summary: Serve as the engineering owner for New York Life’s enterprise workload automation ecosystem. You’ll operate and harden scheduling platforms and calendars, design resilient restart/rerun patterns, and standardize job definitions, logging, and audit evidence across environments. Your work will ensure critical batch chains run predictably, meet SLAs, and support a consistent, automation-first operating model. What You’ll Do: Run & Harden the Platform - Operate and maintain scheduling controllers and agents across environments. - Manage calendars and holiday tables; configure SLA jeopardy thresholds, alerting, and escalation paths. - Implement platform upgrades, patches, and configuration changes in line with standards and change governance. Engineer Reliability & Resilience: - Design restart/rerun patterns (checkpointing, idempotent wrappers) and failure-handling flows for critical batches. - Model dependencies and schedules as code (job-as-code) in version control with CI/CD-based promotion. - Reduce single points of failure and improve consistency across job chains and environments. Standardize & Govern: - Define and ma...