Senior Platform Engineer , Vice President

State Street; Kilkenny; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work-life support

Paid volunteer days

Vibrant employee networks

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design and implementation of our cloud and hybrid infrastructure across multi-region deployments. You will work within Cyber Architecture & Engineering to build scalable platforms and drive reliability.

You will mentor platform engineers, automate toil, and shape the toolchain with CI/CD, IaC, and observability. Expect collaboration across teams to deliver secure, high‑throughput data analytics platforms and rapid incident response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in production engineering and management (deployment, release, maintenance, migration).
• 8+ years in developing production code using Python, Golang, Ruby, or JavaScript.
• 5+ years in medium to large-scale production infrastructure management on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience building and managing cybersecurity platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, ELK, Databricks, etc.).
• Strong expertise in automation and IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, AWS CDK or similar tools.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, Argo CD) and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect cloud & hybrid infrastructure across cloud providers and on-premises with multi-region HA & DR.
• Participate in Site Reliability Engineering practices and automate toil away.
• Mentor Platform Engineers and share knowledge sessions.
• Scale systems via automation to improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Lead the technical vision for platforms owned by Platform Engineering with end-to-end ownership.
• Develop software tools for deployment, monitoring, alerting and operations automation.
• Maintain live services by measuring availability, latency, and performance.
• Design and build petabyte-scale data analytics tooling emphasizing security and privacy.
• Collaborate across teams to scale data systems for various business needs.

Skills

Python

Golang

Ruby

JavaScript

Strong communication

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

AWS CDK

Jenkins

Harness

Spinnaker

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

ELK

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 removing 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.

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 such as 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.

Benefits

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.