Senior Cloud Network & Security Architect

State Street Bank; Greater London, City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteer days

Employee networks

Flexible work-life balance

Job summary

State Street Bank is seeking a Senior Cloud Network & Security Engineer to shape our multi-cloud networking strategy and Zero Trust architecture across global platforms. The role focuses on Cloudflare edge services, IaC adoption, and intelligent automation for enterprise-scale networks.

You will collaborate with global teams across networking, cloud, security, and operations, contributing to secure, scalable connectivity and architecture standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise networking, cloud networking, network security, or network architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure networking; strong routing, switching, WAN, BGP, OSPF, EVPN, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Knowledge of cloud connectivity services like AWS Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute.
• Experience with cloud security, edge security, DNS, DDoS protection, WAF, or Zero Trust technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (Terraform, Python, APIs, Git, CI/CD).
• Ability to create architecture standards, engineering patterns, technical docs, and roadmaps; communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Preferred exposure to Cloudflare services, GCP or other clouds, platform engineering, GitOps, and self-service infrastructure models.
• Interest or experience in AI-enabled operations, AI agent workflows, observability platforms, or intelligent automation.
• Experience in a regulated, global enterprise environment is preferred.
• Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and collaborative leadership while balancing innovation with security.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve global cloud networking services across AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, GCP, and other platforms.
• Architect secure, scalable connectivity across cloud, data centre, campus, branch, internet, and SaaS environments.
• Develop multi-cloud routing and connectivity patterns using AWS Cloud WAN, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, and cloud interconnect services.
• Engineer cloud security and edge services, including WAF, DNS security, DDoS protection, Magic Transit, and Zero Trust access.
• Build automation and IaC solutions using Terraform, Git, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, Python, and cloud-native tooling.
• Contribute to self-service networking and platform engineering capabilities for reliability and faster delivery.
• Develop AI-enabled operational capabilities for network investigation, incident response, change validation, observability, and workflow automation.
• Define architecture standards, engineering patterns, and technology roadmaps for enterprise-wide adoption.
• Partner with cloud, security, infrastructure, application, and operations teams globally.
• Serve as SME and escalation point for complex cloud, network, security, and automation challenges.

Skills

Enterprise network engineering

Cloud networking

Network security

Network architecture

AWS networking

Azure networking

BGP

OSPF

Terraform

Python

Git

CI/CD

Zero Trust

Tools

Cloudflare

Terraform

Direct Connect

ExpressRoute

Azure Virtual WAN

Job description

State Street Bank is seeking a Senior Cloud Network & Security Engineer to shape our multi-cloud networking strategy and Zero Trust architecture across global platforms. The role focuses on Cloudflare edge services, IaC adoption, and intelligent automation for enterprise-scale networks.

You will collaborate with global teams across networking, cloud, security, and operations, contributing to secure, scalable connectivity and architecture standards.