AWS Platform Engineering – Assistant Vice President (AVP)
State StreetResponsibilities
- Lead application onboarding to AWS while ensuring compliance with enterprise standards, security controls, infrastructure-as-code practices, and operational best practices.
- Design, architect, and implement scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions and support on-premises application migrations to AWS.
- Operate and maintain enterprise CI/CD platforms, including pipeline configurations, build agents or runners, artifact repositories, deployment frameworks, and release automation services.
- Troubleshoot build, deployment, and integration issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve platform resilience and reliability.
- Develop self-service capabilities, reusable platform components, and automation that improve developer experience and software delivery.
- Monitor application health, platform performance, and capacity while establishing reliability metrics, service health monitoring, incident management, and post-incident reviews.
- Evaluate AI-assisted engineering and Agentic AI solutions for platform operations, onboarding, troubleshooting, documentation, observability, and workflow automation.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, lead small project teams, coordinate cross-functional platform initiatives, and create technical documentation and training materials.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in AWS, cloud platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering in enterprise environments.
- Experience leading small engineering teams, technical initiatives, or cross-functional projects.
- Strong expertise in AWS core services, CI/CD platforms and tools, infrastructure as code, cloud-native architecture, observability, and AWS networking.
- Experience onboarding and supporting large-scale enterprise applications on AWS and migrating on-premises applications to public cloud platforms.
- Experience integrating third-party vendor applications and SaaS solutions into enterprise cloud environments.
- Experience implementing platform engineering, developer self-service, and internal developer platform practices.
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Advanced Networking Specialty are preferred.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools, Agentic AI capabilities, and automation frameworks is preferred.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
Benefits
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
- Work timing is 2 PM to 11 PM IST.
About State Street
At State Street, we deliver leading investment platforms, data, expertise, and solutions that accelerate performance and better decision making. With over 200 years of global financial leadership, we equip institutional investors through a comprehensive suite of capabilities: Investment Services: Integrated front-to-back solutions across custody, accounting, and operations. Investment Management: Index and active strategies from one of the world’s largest asset managers. Markets: Multi-asset trading, FX solutions, and data-driven research to enhance portfolio value. Who We Are • 50,000+ employees worldwide • Active in 100+ markets • #1 in ETF servicing What You’ll Find Here • Executive perspectives and thought leadership • Timely market commentary and macro insights • Our views on investment operations, ETFs, private markets, and digital finance • Stories reflecting our culture, values and commitment to diversity and inclusion