Senior Platform Engineer , Vice President

State Street · Kilkenny, Ireland

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Full-timeSeniorJul 2026 · checked today

Senior Platform Engineer PositionWho we are looking for

The State Street Cyber Architecture & Engineering team is looking for a Senior 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 Senior 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 SeniorPlatform Engineer, you will:

Architect cloud & hybrid infrastructure across various cloud providers and on-premises locations with multi-region HA & DR capabilities

Participate in Site Reliability Engineering practices, continuously remove toil by automating and designing it out

Mentor Platform Engineers on the team and participate in knowledge sharing sessions

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.

Drive the technical vision for platforms owned by the Platform Engineering team, continuously review the technologies used to maintain the optimal tech stack

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

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 system performance

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 with solutions for scaling data systems for various business needs and collaborate in a dynamic and consultative environment.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Minimum 8+ years of production engineering and management (deployment, release, maintenance, migration) using DevOps toolset and methodologies

Minimum 8+ years in developing production code using at least one high-level programming language like Python, Golang, Ruby, JavaScript

Minimum 5+ 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

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

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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