Senior Platform Engineer, Vice President

State Street•Toronto, ON

7d•$120,000 - $202,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The State Street Cyber Architecture & Engineering team is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer, VP. 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.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
access to our 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
vibrant employee networks