Senior Cloud Networking & Security Architect

State Street; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Senior Cloud Network & Security Engineer to join the Global Network Architecture & Engineering team. This role focuses on designing, securing, automating, and evolving next-generation network services across a large global enterprise.

The role spans AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, and other cloud platforms to engineer secure, scalable connectivity across cloud, data centre, campus, and branch environments, with emphasis on automation and AI-enabled operations.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise network engineering and cloud networking.
• Hands-on with AWS and/or Azure networking.
• Strong understanding of routing, switching, WAN, BGP, OSPF, EVPN.
• Experience designing or operating large-scale enterprise networks.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (Terraform, Python, Git, CI/CD).
• Ability to create architecture standards and roadmaps.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve global cloud networking services across AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, GCP, and other cloud platforms.
• Architect secure and 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 Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, Git, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, Python, and cloud-native tooling.
• Contribute to self-service networking and platform engineering capabilities that improve consistency, reliability, and speed of delivery.
• Develop AI-enabled operational capabilities that support 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 a subject matter expert and escalation point for complex cloud, network, security, and automation challenges.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Cloud networking

Network security

Network architecture

AWS networking

Tools

Terraform

Python

APIs

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

State Street is seeking a Senior Cloud Network & Security Engineer to join the Global Network Architecture & Engineering team. This role focuses on designing, securing, automating, and evolving next-generation network services across a large global enterprise.

The role spans AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, and other cloud platforms to engineer secure, scalable connectivity across cloud, data centre, campus, and branch environments, with emphasis on automation and AI-enabled operations.