Software Engineering & Development, Vice President
STATE STREET CORPORATION
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Job summary
State Street Corporation seeks an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer in London to design, implement, and support DevOps capabilities underpinning a suite of risk and capital optimization solutions. You will drive automation, enhance deployment processes, and ensure secure, scalable platform operations in a regulated financial services environment.
The role involves modernizing development and release practices, working with cross-functional teams, and leading platform modernization initiatives
Qualifications
- Significant DevOps/Platform Engineering experience in production environments.
- Proven ability to design and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in financial services or regulated industries is desirable.
- Strong automation, security, and deployment lifecycle skills.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade DevOps frameworks and practices.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, tests, deployments, and releases.
- Promote Infrastructure as Code and automation-first approaches across environments.
- Automate provisioning and deployment activities to improve efficiency and reduce risk.
- Collaborate with security teams to embed DevSecOps practices.
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Job description
The GM Risk and Capital Optimization Technology team is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join the TAROT platform team based in London. This is a key technical role responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting the DevOps capabilities that underpin a suite of strategic risk and capital optimization solutions. The successful candidate will drive automation, improve software delivery processes, enhance operational resilience, and ensure the scalability, security, and reliability of the platform. Working closely with software engineers, architects, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity teams, and business stakeholders, the Senior DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in modernizing development and deployment practices, streamlining release management, and supporting mission-critical applications within a highly regulated financial services environment.
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade DevOps frameworks and best practices.
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test, deployment, and release processes.
- Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation-first approaches across application and platform environments.
- Automate operational processes, environment provisioning, and deployment activities to improve efficiency and reduce risk.
- Continuously improve software delivery lifecycle processes, deployment frequency, and release quality.
- Manage and administer source code repositories, branching strategies, and release processes.
- Support application versioning, release governance, and deployment planning across multiple environments.
- Implement best practices for code promotion, artifact management, and release automation.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure consistent development standards and deployment practices.
- Support multiple application environments including development, testing, UAT, and production.
- Manage application hosting platforms and ensure platform stability, availability, and performance.
- Monitor platform health and proactively identify opportunities for optimization and improvement.
- Support disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity requirements.
- Work closely with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to ensure platforms are secure, scalable, and compliant.
- Manage Windows Server environments supporting business-critical applications.
- Administer and support IIS-hosted applications and web services.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and application performance issues across environments.
- Support capacity planning, performance tuning, and operational readiness initiatives.
- Embed security controls and DevSecOps principles into the software delivery lifecycle.
- Ensure adherence to enterprise technology standards, risk controls, and operational procedures.
- Support platform vulnerability remediation, patch management, and audit requirements.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to enhance security automation and monitoring capabilities.
- Partner with software engineering teams to improve development workflows and deployment automation.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers on DevOps best practices and operational excellence.
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to platform modernization initiatives.
- Act as a subject matter expert for DevOps tooling, automation, and operational support.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Significant experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering role.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience supporting complex, business-critical applications in production environments.
- Strong experience working within financial services, banking, capital markets, or other regulated industries is highly desirable.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools and automated deployment frameworks.
- Extensive knowledge of source control systems and repository management.
- Strong Windows Server administration experience.
- Strong Microsoft technology stack expertise.
- Hands-on experience administering and supporting IIS (Internet Information Services).
- Experience with release management, deployment automation, and software delivery lifecycle management.
- Strong troubleshooting and operational support capabilities.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and performance management tools.
- Desirable Python scripting and automation development.
- PowerShell scripting and Windows automation.
- Infrastructure as Code technologies.
- Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Cloud platform experience (Azure preferred).
- Experience supporting application monitoring and observability platforms.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
- Familiarity with SonarQube, security scanning, and code quality tooling.
- Experience supporting .NET and Microsoft-based application stacks.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and evolving technology environment.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to operational excellence.
- Self-motivated with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Able to balance strategic initiatives with hands-on operational responsibilities.
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.
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 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.
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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