Senior Platform Engineer

State Street

. Architect cloud and hybrid infrastructure across cloud providers and on-premises locations with multi-region high availability and disaster recovery .

Posted 10/2/2026full-timeQuincy • Massachusetts • United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $202,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting cloud and hybrid infrastructures with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, and automation. Proficient in developing production code and managing large-scale cloud environments while ensuring security and performance.

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Cloud Infrastructure ManagementDevOps Tools and MethodologiesInfrastructure as CodeWorkflow AutomationObservability Tools

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Hard Skills

PythonGolangRubyJavaScriptAWSGCPAzureTerraformAnsibleCI/CD

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationEnd-to-End OwnershipProject Leadership

Tools & Technologies

SplunkSentinelELKDatabricksPrometheusGrafanaDatadog

Industry Keywords

Site Reliability EngineeringCloud Security PrinciplesDistributed Systems DesignAutomationData Analytics

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureChefCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaScriptLinuxPrometheusPuppetPythonRubySplunkTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect cloud and hybrid infrastructure across cloud providers and on-premises locations with multi-region high availability and disaster recovery
Participate in Site Reliability Engineering practices and automate away operational toil
Mentor Platform Engineers and participate in knowledge-sharing sessions
Scale systems sustainably through automation and reliability improvements
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Drive the technical vision for Platform Engineering-owned platforms and optimize the technology stack
Develop software solutions for application and cloud infrastructure management and eliminate ClickOps
Build a modern platform combining purpose-made code and industry-standard tools
Develop deployment, monitoring, alerting, and operations automation tools
Own platform implementation and functionality end-to-end from the end-user perspective
Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and system performance
Design and build petabyte-scale systems for high availability, throughput, data consistency, security, and privacy
Define next-generation data analytics tooling
Develop scalable data-system solutions for business needs and collaborate in a dynamic, consultative environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 8+ years of production engineering and management experience using DevOps tools and methodologies
Minimum 8+ years developing production code using at least one high-level programming language such as Python, Golang, Ruby, or JavaScript
Minimum 5+ years of medium- to large-scale production infrastructure management experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
Experience building and managing cybersecurity platforms such as Splunk, Sentinel, ELK, Anvilogic, Crogl, or Databricks
Strong expertise in workflow automation using Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
Production experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, AWS CDK, or similar tools
Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and methodology, with production experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines
Understanding of core cloud security principles and experience securing cloud platforms
Ability to troubleshoot and measure complex cloud environment performance
Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals, including networking, filesystems, kernel, and isolation
Ability to transform business requirements into production-ready software components
Strong end-to-end ownership, autonomy, and prioritization
Proven ability to lead projects and cross-team engagements independently
Production experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
Understanding of distributed systems design
Excellent communication skills
Hybrid work availability, with 3 days per week in the office and an 8 AM to 5 PM schedule

Benefits

Comp & perks

Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages
Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities
Employee Assistance Program
Incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards
Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans
Inclusive development opportunities
Flexible work-life support
Paid volunteer days
Employee networks