DevOps Technical Lead — CI/CD Platform

Devopsroles; Burlington (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Technical TeamLead to own the technical direction and delivery of the Client CI/CD platform, enabling clients to build, validate, and deploy customizations to dedicated SaaS environments.

You will lead a small development team, define scalable automation with Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible, and implement DevSecOps practices, while collaborating with clients and stakeholders and improving reliability, security, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience leading or coordinating a software engineering or DevOps team.
• 5+ years of experience working in a DevOps engineering or platform role.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, CircleCI, or other major CI/CD systems.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
• At least 5 years of hands‑on experience with Python, Java, and SQL.
• Proficiency using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or other agentic development tools and harnesses to improve engineering efficiency.
• Understanding of secure DevSecOps principles, SDLC practices, vulnerability management, CVE workflows, penetration testing, and security scanning.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with a major public cloud provider; Azure experience is preferred.
• Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Ability to translate client requirements into technical designs, estimates, and prioritized delivery plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities.
• Define scalable, reliable, and secure automation for building and deploying client customizations.
• Develop infrastructure and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform and Ansible.
• Use LLM-based tools for automating reviewing proposed changes, identifying potential risks, and troubleshooting issues.
• Establish and maintain DevSecOps practices, including static and dynamic security testing, dependency and vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation workflows, penetration testing coordination, and secure release processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues involving pipelines, infrastructure, deployments, and customer environments.
• Lead technical estimation, prioritization, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
• Work directly with clients and stakeholders to refine requirements and define practical solutions.
• Lead and mentor a small development team.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance, and developer experience.

Skills

CI/CD leadership

Azure familiarity

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Security testing

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Client collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

CircleCI

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

GitHub Copilot

Job description

State Street is seeking a Technical TeamLead to own the technical direction and delivery of the Client CI/CD platform, enabling clients to build, validate, and deploy customizations to dedicated SaaS environments.

You will lead a small development team, define scalable automation with Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible, and implement DevSecOps practices, while collaborating with clients and stakeholders and improving reliability, security, and developer experience.