Kubernetes - Cloud Engineer

State Street; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking an experienced Cloud Native Platform Engineer to automate and streamline operations, build deployment tools, and ensure scalable, secure platform solutions.

The role emphasizes AKS design, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and strong observability across production systems. Collaboration with engineering teams and clients is essential for delivering reliable cloud-native platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in cloud engineering or similar roles.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in Azure AKS with multi-cloud exposure.
• Hands-on with DevOps tooling: ArgoCD, Terraform, Azure DevOps, scripting.
• Observability tools: Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Ability to influence platform/product roadmaps with PMs.
• Solid knowledge of cloud-native engineering concepts, security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AKS platforms for mission-critical workloads.
• Manage multi-cluster and multi-region AKS deployments with HA and DR.
• Own platform lifecycle: upgrades, patching, node pools, hardening.
• Define standardized AKS patterns across environments.

Skills

Kubernetes

Containers

Distributed systems

Azure AKS

Multi-cloud

ArgoCD

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Scripting

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Platform roadmaps

Cloud native concepts

Communication

Tools

ArgoCD

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Scripting

Job description

Role Overview

Charles River Development is looking for an experiencedCloud Native Platform Engineer. The successful candidate will be responsible for automating and streamlining our operations and processes, building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations as well as troubleshooting and resolving issues in our development, test, and production environments. Our ideal candidate is proficient with Kubernetes, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms. They should also be familiar with the software development lifecycle and have a deep understanding of modern DevOps tools and practices.

The successful candidate will partner closely with internal engineering teams, architects, product leaders, and external clients to ensure platform solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with both business objectives and emerging technology trends.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Kubernetes Platform Strategy

• Design, build, and operate enterprise-grade Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platforms supporting mission-critical workloads


• Manage multi-cluster and multi-region AKS deployments with high availability and disaster recovery strategies


• Own platform lifecycle management including version upgrades, patching, node pool management, and cluster hardening


• Define and enforce standardized AKS architecture patterns across environments (dev, non-prod, prod)

Cloud-Native Infrastructure & Workload Enablement

• Partner with application teams to onboard and modernize workloads into containerized, cloud-native architectures


• Enable scalable, resilient deployments using microservices, API-first, and event-driven patterns


• Support integration across enterprise systems (including hybrid/on-prem connectivity where required)

Automation, GitOps & Deployment Engineering

• Implement GitOps-based deployment models using tools like ArgoCD for consistent and auditable releases


• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions for Kubernetes workloads


• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform (preferred) for Azure resources and AKS provisioning


• Automate operational workflows including cluster provisioning, scaling, and recovery

Observability, Monitoring & Reliability Engineering

• Design and maintain platform observability frameworks using:


• Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Elasticsearch


• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics


• OpenTelemetry (where applicable)


• Ensure proactive monitoring of cluster health, application performance, and infrastructure metrics


• Drive incident management practices, root cause analysis (RCA), and continuous reliability improvements


• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and platform health KPIs

Security, Networking & Compliance (Azure-focused)

• Implement secure AKS architectures including:


• Azure CNI / networking models


• Private clusters, network policies


• Identity (Managed Identity, Azure AD integration)


• Enforce container security and runtime protection (image scanning, policy enforcement)


• Integrate with Azure Key Vault for secrets management


• Ensure compliance with enterprise security and governance standards

Cross ‑ Functional Leadership

• Lead complex troubleshooting across Kubernetes, Azure infrastructure, and network layers


• Drive cost optimization and capacity management (FinOps practices) for AKS and Azure resources


• Serve as a bridge between Cloud Platform Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Business teams.


• Provide thought leadership on cloud native platforms, operating models, and platform governance.

Required Qualifications

Experience & Technical Skills

• Minimum 10 years of experience in cloud engineering organization, with platform engineering experience, or solution architecture roles.


• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems


• Strong expertise in Azure (AKS), with exposure to multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) and cloud-native architectures.


• Hands-on experience with DevOps Platform Tooling (i.e) ArgoCD, Terraform, Azure Devops, scripting


• Operational experience with observability tools Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry


• Experience influencing or owning platform/product roadmaps in partnership with Product Management.


• Solid background in cloud native engineering concepts, performance optimization, security, and governance.

Soft Skills & Leadership Capabilities

• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and client levels.

Salary Range

$90,000 - $157,500 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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