At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead DevOps operations, automate processes, and enhance platform security and reliability.
- Company: Join State Street, a global leader in financial services with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and inclusive development opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with excellent career growth and vibrant employee networks.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in digital transformation while working with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: Strong AWS experience and knowledge of DevOps practices required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
This opportunity is ideal for individuals interested in contributing as a Lead DevOps Engineer (AVP) within State Street’s Global Technology Services (GTS) organization. GTS is a critical enabler of State Street’s business, delivering data, insights, and digital capabilities to our clients. We are driving enterprise-wide digital transformation by leveraging industry best practices and advanced technologies. The ideal candidate demonstrates integrity, creativity, and a strong commitment to continuous learning. This role requires a collaborative mindset, a passion for innovation, and the ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams.
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to own, manage, automate and continuously improve the infrastructure deployment process, security, reliability, and operational excellence of our digital platform. The ideal candidate will be responsible for end-to-end DevOps operations, including cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD automation, application deployments, monitoring, security hardening, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and platform reliability. This role requires close collaboration with development, architecture, security, content management, and business teams to ensure a highly available, secure, and scalable platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the operational health, availability, performance, and security of the AEM platform and supporting AWS infrastructure.
- Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for cloud resources and application environments.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for AEM applications, frontend assets, and supporting services.
- Manage AEM environments including Author, Publish, Dispatcher, CDN, caching layers, and integrations.
- Implement automated deployment, rollback, and release management processes.
- Monitor platform performance, availability, security, and user experience using modern observability tools.
- Manage AWS services including networking, compute, storage, security, and content delivery components.
- Implement cloud security best practices, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and compliance controls.
- Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation activities.
- Ensure business continuity through backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning and testing.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Support capacity planning, environment provisioning, and platform upgrades.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment reliability, application observability, and operational readiness.
- Maintain platform documentation, operational runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
- Participate in on-call support and production issue resolution as required.
Technical Requirements
- Strong experience with AWS and AWS SDK, EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Route 53.
- Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Linux, Bash, Python.
- Exposure of IAM, authentication and authorization layers.
- Working experience of how to deploy and manage AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) including author, publisher, dispatcher and caching layers.
- Observability experience using CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace.
- Knows how to use Harness, Jenkins, Jfrog.
- Knowledge of Networking, DNS, SSL/TLS, Security Hardening, Vulnerability Management, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery.
- Nice-to-have: Terraform, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Elastic Cache.
- Knowledge of Incident Management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Performance Optimization.
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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Lead DevOps Engineer, Vice President employer: State Street Bank
State Street is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in London where innovation and collaboration thrive. Employees benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, and vibrant networks that foster personal and professional growth. With a strong commitment to employee well-being and a focus on driving digital transformation, State Street empowers its team members to make meaningful contributions while enjoying a rewarding career.
