Cloud Platform Engineer - Kubernetes
State Street2 months ago
Base Salary
$90k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and govern enterprise Azure Kubernetes Service platforms across multiple clusters and regions.
- Manage AKS lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, node pools, hardening, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Enable application teams to adopt containerized, cloud-native, microservices, API-first, and event-driven architectures.
- Implement GitOps deployment models, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code for Azure and AKS resources.
- Automate cluster provisioning, scaling, recovery, and other operational workflows.
- Design observability and monitoring frameworks and drive incident management, root cause analysis, reliability improvements, and platform health measurement.
- Implement secure AKS networking, identity, private clusters, network policies, container protection, secrets management, and governance controls.
- Lead complex troubleshooting across Kubernetes, Azure, infrastructure, and networking layers.
- Drive AKS and Azure cost optimization and capacity management using FinOps practices.
- Influence platform and product roadmaps, provide technical leadership, and mentor technical teams.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in cloud engineering organizations, platform engineering, or solution architecture roles.
- Extensive experience with Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.
- Strong Azure and AKS expertise, with exposure to AWS, GCP, and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on experience with ArgoCD, Terraform, Azure DevOps, and scripting.
- Operational experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience influencing or owning platform or product roadmaps in partnership with Product Management.
- Background in cloud-native engineering, performance optimization, security, and governance.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Strong communication, presentation, collaboration, stakeholder influence, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.
- Financial services and regulated-environment experience are strongly preferred; customer-facing or consulting experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $90,000-$157,500.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
- Medical, dental, vision, basic life, long-term disability, and optional insurance coverage.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Employee Assistance Program, incentive compensation eligibility, and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
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About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.