Platform Engineer – Cloud Data Platform & Automation

State Street; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 157,500; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Platform Engineer to drive architecture and implementation of cloud and hybrid data solutions for internal platforms. You will deploy and maintain vast infrastructure using IaC tools, integrate new technologies, and collaborate with engineers, architects and managers to push cloud innovation.

You will be responsible for building software for platform management, automating deployments, monitoring systems, and scaling data tooling while maintaining security and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in production engineering and DevOps deployment, release, maintenance, and migrations.
• 5+ years writing production code in Python, Golang, Ruby, or JavaScript.
• 3+ years managing large-scale cloud infrastructure with AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Develop software for complex cloud infra management and reduce ClickOps.
• Build a robust platform blending custom code with standard tools to boost team efficiency.
• Create tools for deployment, monitoring, alerting and automation.
• Automate infrastructure interactions with code to produce immutable deployments.
• Maintain live services by monitoring availability, latency, and performance.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using CloudFormation, Terraform, and related tools.
• Scale systems with automation and introduce changes for reliability and velocity.
• Conduct blameless postmortems and sustainable incident response.
• Design petabyte-scale data systems ensuring data security and availability.
• Collaborate with global leadership to support data science initiatives and governance.
• Develop scalable data solutions for diverse business needs in a consultative environment.

Skills

DevOps tooling

Python

Golang

JavaScript

AWS

GCP

Azure

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Jenkins

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Linux

Security concepts

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

AWS CDK

Jenkins

Harness

Spinnaker

Argo CD

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Who We Are Looking For

The State Street Cyber Architecture & Engineering team is looking for a 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. As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the architecture and implementation of complex cloud & hybrid data solutions for all the customer teams at State Street in the form of an internal platform, deploying and maintaining our vast infrastructure using IaC tools, integrating new tools and technologies to boost efficiency and meet new challenges, and working with other engineers, architects, and managers to continue innovating in all the cloud efforts of the team.

Platform Engineer Position

Who We Are Looking For

The State Street Cyber Architecture & Engineering team is looking for a 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. As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the architecture and implementation of complex cloud & hybrid data solutions for all the customer teams at State Street in the form of an internal platform, deploying and maintaining our vast infrastructure using IaC tools, integrating new tools and technologies to boost efficiency and meet new challenges, and working with other engineers, architects, and managers to continue innovating in all the cloud efforts of the team.

What You Will Be Responsible For

As a Platform Engineer, you will:

• 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
• Automate and codify all the infrastructure provider interactions by using Infrastructure as Code to create immutable reproducible deployments and establish best practices to scale it in a maintainable way
• Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system performance
• Implement and manage Security event routing & SIEM platforms in a hybrid multi cloud environment using CI/CD processes by developing CloudFormation and Terraform templates
• 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.
• 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
• Work alongside the global cybersecurity architecture & engineering leadership to develop and deliver capabilities to support Cyber Data Science initiatives both internally and in partnership with detection and response teams, and governance and risk management teams across our CISO organization.
• Come up with solutions for scaling data systems for various business needs and collaborate in a dynamic and consultative environment.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of production engineering and management (deployment, release, maintenance, migration) using DevOps toolset and methodologies
• Minimum 5+ years in developing production code using at least one high-level programming language like Python, Golang, Ruby, JavaScript
• Minimum 3+ 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 like 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
• 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
• Production experience with modern observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
• Understanding of core concepts of distributed systems design
• Excellent communication skills
  
  
  

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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About State Street

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 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. Join us in shaping the future.

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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Job ID: R-794025