State Street

InfrastructureAutomationEngineer,VicePresident

London, United Kingdom FULL TIME
The Brief

“Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Vice President at State Street. Skills: Infrastructure Automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Concepts, Security Automation. Define and drive automation strategy. Scan, configure, and continuously improve infrastructure securely and reliably”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting; Continuous improvement; Pragmatic trade-off decisions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years of experience in infrastructure automation or related role, A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field is required, Significant hands-on experience automating infrastructure in enterprise environments (cloud and/or on‑prem), with understanding of networking, compute, storage, and identity fundamentals., Proficiency with configuration/automation tooling (Ansible, PowerShell, Puppet, Chef) and ability to design reusable modules, roles, and standards., experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (e. g. , Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), including code review practices, branching strategies, and release governance., engineering discipline around code quality (design reviews, peer review, linting, automated testing), and experience implementing quality gates and standards across a team., Scripting skills in one or more languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash) and comfort working with YAML/JSON; able to set patterns for maintainability and testability., Experience with data ingestion patterns for operational/security telemetry (e. g. , APIs, forwarders/agents, event hubs/queues, file drops), including validation and troubleshooting., Experience designing and implementing data transformations for reporting/automation (parsing, normalisation, enrichment, aggregation) using tools such as SPL/SQL/Python as appropriate., Working knowledge of cloud concepts (e. g. , IAM/identity, networking, storage, monitoring, tagging) and ability to apply them to automation design and governance., Working knowledge of secrets management (e. g. , Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault) and secure engineering practices, including least privilege and credential hygiene., Experience collaborating with security, risk, and audit partners to implement controls through automation (e. g. , CIS benchmarks, NIST, ISO 27001) and to evidence compliance., Ability to lead technical discussions, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and make sound trade-off decisions.

Nice to Have

Experience in managing compliance programs and/or familiarity with security frameworks and standards such as CIS, NIST, or ISO 27001, Experience in leading technical teams on enterprise scale initiatives.

What You'll Do.

Define and drive automation strategy

and continuously improve infrastructure securely and reliably

Lead technical design for configuration automation

Own end-to-end delivery standards for automation code quality

Create and govern CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform changes

Establish observability and operational readiness for automation

Lead design and ongoing improvement of data ingestion for infrastructure and security telemetry

Define and implement data transformations to standardise

and aggregate operational data

Apply cloud concepts when designing automation and integrations

Partner with security and risk teams to embed secure-by-default practices

Collaborate across engineering teams to drive adoption of patterns

Mentor and coach engineers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with platform teams, security, and application teams; Collaborate across engineering teams; Partner with security, risk, and audit partners; Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Communication Scope

Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders; Clear documentation

Process & Methodology

Lead technical design, Own end-to-end delivery standards, Lead design and ongoing improvement, Implement controls through automation, Make sound trade-off decisions, Lead technical teams on enterprise scale initiatives

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