Introduction
This opportunity is ideal for individuals interested in contributing as a Lead DevOps Engineer within State Street’s Global Technology Services (GTS) organization. GTS is a critical enabler of State Street’s business, delivering data, insights, and digital capabilities to our clients. We are driving enterprise-wide digital transformation by leveraging industry best practices and advanced technologies. The ideal candidate demonstrates integrity, creativity, and a strong commitment to continuous learning. This role requires a collaborative mindset, a passion for innovation, and the ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams.
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to own, manage, automate and continuously improve the infrastructure deployment process, security, reliability, and operational excellence of our digital platform.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for end-to-end DevOps operations, including cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD automation, application deployments, monitoring, security hardening, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and platform reliability. This role requires close collaboration with development, architecture, security, content management, and business teams to ensure a highly available, secure, and scalable platform.
Key Responsibilities
Own the operational health, availability, performance, and security of the AEM platform and supporting AWS infrastructure.
Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for cloud resources and application environments.
Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for AEM applications, frontend assets, and supporting services.
Manage AEM environments including Author, Publish, Dispatcher, CDN, caching layers, and integrations.
Implement automated deployment, rollback, and release management processes.
Monitor platform performance, availability, security, and user experience using modern observability tools.
Manage AWS services including networking, compute, storage, security, and content delivery components.
Implement cloud security best practices, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and compliance controls.
Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation activities.
Ensure business continuity through backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning and testing.
Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
Support capacity planning, environment provisioning, and platform upgrades.
Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment reliability, application observability, and operational readiness.
Maintain platform documentation, operational runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
Participate in on-call support and production issue resolution as required.
Technical Requirements
Strong experience with AWS and AWS SDK, EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Route 53
Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Linux, Bash, Python
Exposure of IAM, authentication and authorization layers
Working experience of how to deploy and manage AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) including author, publisher, dispatcher and caching layers.
Observability experience using CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace
Knows how to use Harness, Jenkins, Jfrog
Knowledge of Networking, DNS, SSL/TLS, Security Hardening, Vulnerability Management, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery
Nice-to-have
Terraform, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Elastic Cache
Knowledge of Incident Management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Performance Optimization.
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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Skills Required
- Strong experience with AWS and AWS SDK, EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Route 53
- Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Linux, Bash, Python
- Experience with IAM, authentication and authorization layers
- Working experience deploying and managing AEM (Author, Publisher, Dispatcher, caching layers)
- Observability experience using CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace
- Experience using Harness, Jenkins, JFrog
- Knowledge of Networking, DNS, SSL/TLS, Security Hardening, Vulnerability Management, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery
- Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions and CI/CD automation
State Street Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about State Street and has not been reviewed or approved by State Street.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as a standout component, highlighted by a 401(k) match described as 100% on the first 6% of base salary. This is positioned as a meaningful offset to less competitive cash compensation for some roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off are portrayed as relatively robust, with references to multi-week vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and additional days tied to wellness or volunteering. This breadth is repeatedly treated as a tangible part of total rewards beyond base pay.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are presented as extensive, including the BeWell program, fitness discounts, onsite or supported health resources, and financial counseling. These offerings are depicted as strengthening the overall benefits proposition even when pay satisfaction is tepid.
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What We Do
At State Street, we partner with institutional investors all over the world to provide comprehensive financial services, including investment management, investment research and trading, and investment servicing. Whether you are an asset manager, asset owner, alternative asset manager, insurance company, pension fund or official institution, you can rely on us to be focused on your challenges. We are committed to doing what it takes to help you perform better — now and in the future
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