Kubernetes Cloud Engineer

State Street

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Burlington, MA
Salary
$90,000–$157,500 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $159k
This role $124k
$78k most similar roles pay here $205k

This role pays less than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$192,162 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $124k versus about $159k for comparable roles.

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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

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At a glance

TL;DR · Kubernetes Cloud Engineer

As a Kubernetes - Cloud Engineer, you will join the Cloud Native Platform team to automate operations, build deployment tools, and manage infrastructure across development, test, and production environments. You will design and operate enterprise-grade Azure Kubernetes Service platforms, managing multi-cluster deployments while ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. Your daily work involves modernizing workloads into containerized architectures using microservices and event-driven patterns. You will implement GitOps models with ArgoCD, build CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform. To ensure reliability, you will manage observability frameworks involving Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and OpenTelemetry. The role focuses on solving complex infrastructure challenges by enforcing security standards, managing network policies, and optimizing costs for mission-critical workloads within a cloud-native ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and manage enterprise-grade Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platforms for mission-critical workloads.
  • Implement GitOps-based deployment models using ArgoCD and build CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to provision Azure resources and AKS environments.
  • Design and maintain platform observability frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Manage cluster lifecycle tasks including version upgrades, patching, node pool management, and hardening.
  • Implement secure AKS architectures including network policies, identity integration, and secret management via Azure Key Vault.
  • Lead complex troubleshooting across Kubernetes, Azure infrastructure, and network layers to ensure system reliability.
  • Drive cost optimization and capacity management for cloud resources following FinOps practices.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 10 years of experience in cloud engineering, 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) and cloud-native architectures, with exposure to multi-cloud environments.
  • Hands-on experience with DevOps tools 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 to influence senior leadership and clients.

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