Kubernetes Cloud Engineer

State Street

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Burlington, MA
Salary
$90,000–$157,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
50 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Dec 31, 2026

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Below market

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About State Street

State Street Corporation is one of the world''s largest custodian banks and asset managers, providing investment servicing, investment management, and investment research to institutional investors. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Custody

State Street currently has 339 open roles on FindRole.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Kubernetes Cloud Engineer

The Kubernetes - Cloud Engineer joins the Cloud Native Platform Engineering team to automate operations and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting across development, test, and production environments. This role involves designing and operating enterprise-grade Azure Kubernetes Service platforms, managing multi-cluster deployments, and modernizing workloads into containerized architectures using microservices and event-driven patterns. Key responsibilities include implementing GitOps models with ArgoCD, building CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, and developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. The engineer will manage observability frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and OpenTelemetry while ensuring security through Azure CNI, network policies, and Key Vault. The position solves complex infrastructure challenges by providing scalable, secure, and high-availability cloud-native solutions for mission-critical workloads.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate enterprise-grade Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platforms for mission-critical workloads.
  • Manage multi-cluster and multi-region AKS deployments including version upgrades, patching, and cluster hardening.
  • Implement GitOps-based deployment models using ArgoCD and build CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform for Azure resources and AKS provisioning.
  • Design and maintain platform observability frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Implement secure AKS architectures including network policies, private clusters, and Azure Key Vault integration.
  • Lead complex troubleshooting across Kubernetes, Azure infrastructure, and network layers to drive reliability.
  • Drive cost optimization and capacity management for AKS and Azure resources using FinOps practices.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 10 years of experience in a cloud engineering organization, platform engineering, or solution architecture roles.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Extensive experience with Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.
  • Strong expertise in Azure (AKS) with exposure to multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with DevOps platform tooling including ArgoCD, Terraform, Azure DevOps, and scripting.
  • Operational experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience influencing or owning platform/product roadmaps in partnership with Product Management.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior leadership and clients.

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