Senior PlatformEngineer Position

Who we are looking for

The State Street Cyber Architecture & Engineering team is looking for a Senior Platform EngineerThe 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 SeniorPlatform Engineer, you will be responsible fordriving the architecture and implementation of complex cloud & hybrid data solutionsfor all the customer teams at State Street in the form of an internal platform, deploying and maintaining our vast infrastructure usingIaCtools, 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 willbe responsible for

As a SeniorPlatform Engineer,you will:

• Architect cloud& hybridinfrastructureacross various cloud providers and on-premises locations with multi-region HA & DR capabilities

• Participate in Site Reliability Engineering practices, continuously remove toilbyautomating and designing it out

• Mentor Platform Engineers on the teamandparticipatein knowledge sharing sessions

• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

• Practice sustainable incidentresponseand blameless postmortems.

• Drive the technical vision for platforms owned by the Platform Engineering team, continuously review the technologies used tomaintaintheoptimaltech stack

• Develop software solutions for complex application and cloud infrastructure management and eliminateClickOps

• Build a robust modern platform with a fusion of purpose-made code and industry-standard tools, increasing team effectiveness andeliminatingunnecessarytoil

• Develop software tools for deployment, monitoring,alertingand 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 systemperformance

• 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 withsolutions for scaling data systems for various business needs and collaborate in a dynamic and consultative environment.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Minimum8+ years of production engineering and management(deployment, release, maintenance, migration) using DevOps toolset and methodologies

• Minimum8+ years in developing production code using at least one high-level programming language like Python, Golang, Ruby, JavaScript

• Minimum5+ 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.

• Strongexpertisein 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.) andmethodology, production experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with a focus on helping teams releasefrequentlyto production whilemaintainingdeployment 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