Senior Azure Kubernetes Platform 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

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.