Managing Director, Cloud Platform

State Street

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Work type: On-site
Location: Burlington, MA
Salary: $170,000–$282,500 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 48 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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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TL;DR · Managing Director, Cloud Platform

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JOB TITLE: Managing Director, Cloud Platform The Managing Director, Cloud Platform leads the strategy, engineering, delivery, and operation of the cloud platform underpinning mission-critical investment accounting SaaS products. This leader owns infrastructure outcomes end to end, including availability, resiliency, scalability, security, recoverability, performance, cost effectiveness, and operational readiness. You will set the platform vision, direct complex Azure and Kubernetes environments, and ensure infrastructure capabilities align with product priorities. Key responsibilities include defining multi-year strategies, managing capacity, and driving automation through Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and CI/CD practices. You will utilize tools like Terraform, Argo CD, Azure DevOps, Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace. The role requires translating business requirements into durable engineering outcomes within a regulated financial services environment, ensuring secure-by-design patterns and high-trust interfaces between SaaS operations and application development teams.

Skills

Azure Kubernetes AKS Terraform GitOps CI/CD DevSecOps SRE Infrastructure as Code Prometheus Grafana Dynatrace Elasticsearch OpenTelemetry Azure Monitor Log Analytics Argo CD GitHub Actions Kafka Distributed Systems

What you'll do

Define and execute a multi-year cloud platform strategy for investment accounting products aligned with product roadmaps.
Own infrastructure delivery from demand intake through provisioning, validation, production operation, and lifecycle retirement.
Govern enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms, including multi-cluster patterns, lifecycle management, and workload isolation.
Drive multi-region resilience, disaster recovery, and performance improvements across complex Azure environments.
Lead major incident response and institutionalize root cause elimination to reduce repeat incidents and client impact.
Act as the primary executive liaison between platform engineering and product development to align shared priorities.
Ensure platform designs meet cyber security, risk, and compliance requirements for a regulated financial services environment.
Build and lead a globally distributed engineering organization with clear accountability and measurable business outcomes.

What we're looking for

15+ years of progressive technology experience including leadership of cloud platforms, infrastructure engineering, SaaS operations, or large-scale distributed systems.
Demonstrated success owning mission-critical platforms with demanding availability, performance, security, client, and regulatory expectations.
Deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, containers, and microservice-based applications, including production platform design and operations.
Extensive experience with complex Microsoft Azure deployments, including AKS, networking, identity, security, monitoring, governance, and hybrid integration.
Proven leadership of infrastructure delivery, platform modernization, production operations, incident management, disaster recovery, and resilience improvement.
Strong working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE, observability, and automation practices.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience leading technology in a regulated financial services environment with mature cyber security, audit, compliance, and risk management expectations (preferred).

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