Lead DevOps Engineer (AVP)
State Street
Clifton, New Jersey
Full-Time
$100,000
OfficeManager
Introduction
This opportunity is ideal forindividuals interested in contributing as a LeadDevOps 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 byleveragingindustry best practices and advanced technologies. The ideal candidatedemonstratesintegrity, 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.
Role Overview
We areseekingahighly skilled DevOps Engineer to own, manage,automateand continuously improve the infrastructure deployment process, security, reliability, and operational excellence of our digital platform.
The ideal candidate willbe responsible forend-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 ensurea 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, andmaintainInfrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for cloud resources and application environments.
Build,maintain, andoptimizeCI/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.
Optimizecloud 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 asrequired.
Technical Requirements
Strong experience withAWSand AWS SDK,EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS,Route 53
Working knowledge ofDocker, 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) includingauthor, publisher,dispatcherand caching layers.
Observability experience usingCloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog,Grafana,Dynatrace
Knows how to useHarness, Jenkins,Jfrog
Knowledge ofNetworking, DNS, SSL/TLS, Security Hardening, Vulnerability Management, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery
Nice-to-have
Terraform, CloudFormation, CloudFront,ElasticCache
Knowledge ofIncident Management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Performance Optimization.
Salary Range:
$100,000 - $167,500 AnnualThe range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our 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 (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
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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.
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