Azure Platform Engineer, Assistant Vice President
State StreetBase Salary
$90k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, scalable, resilient Azure infrastructure aligned with enterprise security, governance, availability, and regulatory standards.
- Enable standardized and reusable Azure services and platform capabilities, including identity, access management, configuration management, and monitoring strategies.
- Develop and maintain Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code and scripting automation for provisioning, configuration, validation, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Create and improve automation, CI/CD pipelines, reusable modules, platform standards, guardrails, reference architectures, and operational tooling.
- Collaborate with architects, software development leads, application teams, testers, and quality engineers to enable and optimize workloads on Azure.
- Monitor platform health, troubleshoot issues, document root causes and resolutions, and improve observability, reliability, resiliency, and self-healing capabilities.
- Contribute to Azure governance, security, compliance, cost optimization, developer experience, and continuous platform modernization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- At least 8 years of hands-on IT experience, including at least 5 years designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale Azure environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure IaaS and deep knowledge of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cloud-native architecture, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Experience with hybrid on-premises and cloud solutions in large, complex enterprises.
- Experience with CI/CD and SDLC tooling such as Azure DevOps, Harness, and ServiceNow.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Compute, Storage, Networking, High Availability, Azure Key Vault, AKS, Event Hubs, Azure AD, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Cosmos DB.
- Strong programming and scripting skills with Python, Shell scripting, Azure PowerShell, and Azure CLI.
- Experience designing, coding, and deploying Terraform and/or ARM templates for full-stack automation and Azure service enablement.
- Understanding of Azure Policy, RBAC, networking architectures, cost management, compliance controls, authentication protocols, SSL/TLS communication, and automated unit and integration testing.
- Ability to produce well-documented, compliant design artifacts and communicate effectively in written and spoken English.
- Experience with cost optimization, compliance posture improvement, Azure OpenAI, financial services or regulated industries, and relevant Azure or cloud certifications is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include a 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match; basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional insurance coverage; paid time off; an Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation eligibility; and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- The company offers inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
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