CRIMS Upgrade Engineer | Enterprise Systems & Automation

Charles River Development; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to support upgrades of CRIMS environments and related enterprise applications. You will work across databases, cloud infrastructure, integrations and deployment processes, driving automation and standardisation to improve efficiency and reliability.

You will collaborate with client technology teams and internal engineers, performing installations, validations, and post-upgrade activities while developing runbooks and tooling to streamline

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with enterprise applications and production environments.
• Experience in application upgrades, migrations, deployments, or major software releases.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving across multiple components of a tech stack.
• Solid SQL skills with experience in SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, DB2 or similar.
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted enterprise apps or strong cloud infra knowledge.
• Scripting/automation experience using PowerShell, Python, or shell scripting.
• Familiar with CI/CD, source control, and deployment tooling (Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps).
• Understanding of incident management, RCAs, release management, and change control.
• Ability to collaborate across application, infrastructure, database, operations, and engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication with clients and stakeholders.
• Proactive, automation-focused mindset for reliable delivery.
• Bachelor-level degree or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and technical execution of CRIMS platform upgrades across client environments.
• Assess environments, infra, databases, configurations, integrations and dependencies for upgrade readiness.
• Assist installation, configuration, deployment, testing, production cutover and post-upgrade validation.
• Troubleshoot issues across apps, databases, cloud, connectivity, integrations and data.
• Perform root-cause analysis and coordinate with teams to resolve issues.
• Support development, test, UAT and production environments through upgrade lifecycle.
• Develop scripts and tooling to improve upgrade efficiency and reliability.
• Identify repetitive tasks and contribute to automation and standardisation.
• Improve environment readiness checks, deployment procedures and validation.
• Develop runbooks, upgrade procedures and troubleshooting guides.
• Capture lessons learned and feed improvements into future upgrades.
• Contribute to CI/CD and deployment automation improvements.
• Communicate issues, risks and progress to internal teams and clients.

Skills

Troubleshooting

DevOps

SQL skills

Scripting

Cloud familiarity

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Python

Job description

State Street is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to support upgrades of CRIMS environments and related enterprise applications. You will work across databases, cloud infrastructure, integrations and deployment processes, driving automation and standardisation to improve efficiency and reliability.

You will collaborate with client technology teams and internal engineers, performing installations, validations, and post-upgrade activities while developing runbooks and tooling to streamline