Senior Platform Engineer Position
Who we are looking for
The State Street Cyber Architecture & Engineering team is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer. The Cyber Data & Analytics team delivers models, insights, and tooling to help Cybersecurity teams make faster, more informed decisions as we work to secure State Street’s digital footprint.
Why this role is important to us
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the architecture and implementation of complex cloud & hybrid data solutions for all the customer teams at State Street in the form of an internal platform, deploying and maintaining our vast infrastructure using IaC tools, integrating new tools and technologies to boost efficiency and meet new challenges, and working with other engineers, architects, and managers to continue innovating in all the cloud efforts of the team.
What you will be responsible for
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will:
Architect cloud & hybrid infrastructure across various cloud providers and on-premises locations with multi-region HA & DR capabilities
Participate in Site Reliability Engineering practices, continuously remove toil by automating and designing it out
Mentor Platform Engineers on the team and participate in knowledge sharing sessions
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
Drive the technical vision for platforms owned by the Platform Engineering team, continuously review the technologies used to maintain the optimal tech stack
Develop software solutions for complex application and cloud infrastructure management and eliminate ClickOps
Build a robust modern platform with a fusion of purpose-made code and industry-standard tools, increasing team effectiveness and eliminating unnecessary toil.
Develop software tools for deployment, monitoring, alerting and operations automation
Own the platform implementation and functionality end-to-end with clear understanding from the end user standpoint
Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system performance
Design and build petabyte scale systems for high availability, high throughput, data consistency, security, and end user privacy, defining our next generation of data analytics tooling
Come up with solutions for scaling data systems for various business needs and collaborate in a dynamic and consultative environment.
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role
Education & Preferred Qualifications
Minimum 8+ years of production engineering and management (deployment, release, maintenance, migration) using DevOps toolset and methodologies
Minimum 8+ years in developing production code using at least one high-level programming language like Python, Golang, Ruby, JavaScript
Minimum 5+ years in medium to large-scale production infrastructure management experience with at least one of the major cloud providers - AWS, GCP, Azure
Experience building and managing cybersecurity platforms such as Splunk, Sentinel, ELK, Anvilogic, Crogl, Databricks, etc.
Strong expertise in operation and workflow automation using tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Production experience in the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, AWS CDK or similar tools
Deep understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, Argo CD, etc.) and methodology, production experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with a focus on helping teams release frequently to production while maintaining deployment reliability
Medium to large-scale production infrastructure management experience with at least one of the major cloud providers - AWS, GCP, Azure
Understanding of core cloud security principles, experience in securing cloud platforms
Ability to troubleshoot and measure the performance of complex cloud environments
Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals (networking, filesystems, kernel, isolation)
Ability to transform business requirements into production-ready software components
Strong end-to-end ownership, autonomy, and a good sense of urgency to enable proper self-prioritization
Proven ability to self-sufficiently lead projects and cross-team engagements
Production experience with modern observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
Understanding of core concepts of distributed systems design
Excellent communication skills
Work Requirements
This is a hybrid position with 3 days of the week spent at the office, with an 8 AM to 5 PM work schedule.
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.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 8+ years of production engineering and management (deployment, release, maintenance, migration) using DevOps toolset and methodologies
- Minimum 8+ years developing production code using at least one high-level language (Python, Golang, Ruby, JavaScript)
- Minimum 5+ years medium to large-scale production infrastructure management with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience building and managing cybersecurity platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, ELK, Anvilogic, Crogl, Databricks)
- Expertise in operation and workflow automation using tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Production experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, AWS CDK or similar
- Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and methodologies (Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, Argo CD) and building CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of core cloud security principles and experience securing cloud platforms
- Ability to troubleshoot and measure performance of complex cloud environments
- Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals (networking, filesystems, kernel, isolation)
- Production experience with modern observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- Understanding of core concepts of distributed systems design
- Proven ability to lead projects and cross-team engagements with strong end-to-end ownership
- Excellent communication skills
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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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