Senior Platform Operations Engineer

State Street

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Work type
On-site
Location
Quincy, MA
Salary
$120,000–$202,500 / yr
Posted
38 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 25, 2026

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This role $161k
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This role pays less than 56% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$213,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $161k versus about $182k 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

State Street currently has 176 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Platform Operations Engineer

Senior Platform Operations Engineer The Senior Platform Operations Engineer joins the Cyber Data & Analytics team to manage the reliability, administration, and modernization of enterprise cybersecurity, SIEM, observability, and log management platforms. You will lead global teams in maintaining high-availability systems, overseeing data ingestion pipelines, and performing incident handling, change management, and root cause analysis. The role involves optimizing platform performance using monitoring alerts and service metrics while ensuring compliance with security and audit requirements. You will work extensively with tools including Splunk, QRadar, Elastic Search, Cribl, Databricks, and Anvilogic. Technical requirements include proficiency in Linux/Unix administration, AWS cloud services, and Python or Shell scripting for automation. This role solves critical infrastructure challenges by ensuring stable operations for security monitoring, threat detection, and telemetry management within a large enterprise environment to protect against sophisticated global threats.

What you'll do

  • Manage the daily operations, administration, and reliability of enterprise SIEM, observability, and log management platforms.
  • Oversee the lifecycle of data pipelines using tools like Cribl to ensure proper routing, filtering, and ingestion.
  • Integrate security telemetry into Databricks Data Lake environments for advanced analytics and long-term retention.
  • Lead platform modernization initiatives including upgrades, migrations, and the reduction of technical debt.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to global teams supporting cybersecurity infrastructure and data platforms.
  • Execute incident response, root cause analysis, and change management following ITIL processes and SOPs.
  • Automate operational tasks using scripting to improve monitoring, reduce manual effort, and enhance service reliability.
  • Monitor system health and performance metrics to ensure high availability for mission-critical security tools.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in technology infrastructure, platform engineering, security operations, or enterprise monitoring.
  • 5+ years of technical leadership experience in a large enterprise environment.
  • Experience with enterprise SIEM, observability, and log management tools such as Splunk, QRadar, and Elastic Search.
  • Proficiency in Cribl for data collection, routing, transformation, and optimization.
  • Experience integrating security telemetry into Databricks Data Lake environments.
  • Expertise in AWS cloud services and Linux/Unix administration.
  • Proficiency in Python or Shell scripting for automation, along with knowledge of ITIL processes and tools like ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence.

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