Full-Time
Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
State Street
10,001+ employees
Asset management and custody for institutions
Compensation Overview
$110k - $207.5k/yr
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
Boston, MA, USA + 1 more
More locations: Princeton, NJ, USA
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- At least 12 years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise application delivery.
- At least 8 years of hands-on AWS engineering experience.
- Proven experience deploying complex enterprise applications end-to-end into AWS.
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS networking, compute, security, data services, observability, and automation.
- Strong experience designing and implementing secure multi-tier AWS architectures.
- Required experience with VPC, subnets, security groups, Application Load Balancer, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions, RDS/Aurora/PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, VPC Endpoints, and PrivateLink.
- Required experience building or deploying AI-enabled applications within AWS.
- Required experience with Amazon Bedrock or comparable cloud-based AI service integration.
- Experience integrating applications with LLMs, model endpoints, enterprise AI platforms, or AI orchestration layers.
- Strong understanding of AI deployment patterns, including prompt processing, service invocation, audit logging, observability, and responsible AI controls.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and DevOps practices.
- Strong troubleshooting experience across cloud infrastructure, application services, networking, security, and production operations.
- Ability to lead technical teams and influence engineering decisions without requiring direct management authority.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics to application teams, architects, risk partners, and senior stakeholders.
- Design, engineer, deploy, and support complex AWS solutions for enterprise business applications.
- Build secure, highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud environments.
- Implement AWS architectures across multiple availability zones.
- Establish reusable AWS reference architectures, deployment patterns, and engineering standards.
- Lead cloud modernization efforts for applications moving into AWS.
- Partner with architects and application teams to translate business and platform requirements into production-ready cloud solutions.
- Provide hands-on engineering leadership across design, build, release, troubleshooting, and support activities.
- Deploy enterprise applications into AWS from infrastructure setup through production release.
- Engineer complete application environments across VPC and network configuration, private and application subnets, load balancing, compute services, application hosting, data services, secrets and certificate management, monitoring and alerts, security controls, and CI/CD automation.
- Support backend application deployment patterns including Tomcat, Java services, APIs, microservices, containers, and serverless workloads.
- Troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure, networking, and security issues.
- Ensure applications are production-ready, operationally supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and support core AWS services in complex enterprise environments.
- Design and deploy AWS-based AI-enabled applications and intelligent business platforms.
- Implement AI solutions using AWS-native services, including Amazon Bedrock and related AI/ML capabilities.
- Integrate applications with LLMs, model endpoints, AI services, enterprise APIs, and internal AI platforms.
- Engineer secure patterns for AI service invocation, prompt processing, response handling, audit logging, and operational monitoring.
- Support AI-enabled applications that interact with users, enterprise systems, workflow engines, databases, and external services.
- Implement responsible AI engineering controls including observability, traceability, guardrails, human oversight, logging, and escalation patterns.
- Partner with architecture, cybersecurity, data, risk, and business teams to ensure AI capabilities are secure, compliant, scalable, and operationally mature.
- Build and support AWS-native orchestration patterns for AI-enabled workflows.
- Implement solutions leveraging Amazon Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, IAM, VPC Endpoints, and AWS-hosted application services.
- Support enterprise AI deployment patterns involving tool calling, workflow orchestration, event-driven processing, and secure backend service execution.
- Engineer integration patterns that allow AI-enabled applications to interact with enterprise systems and business processes.
- Support Agent-to-Agent and system-to-system integration patterns where AI capabilities need to coordinate across internal and external platforms.
- Ensure AI workloads are observable, secure, auditable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise governance requirements.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code for AWS environments.
- Automate environment provisioning, application deployment, configuration, and release management.
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native and AI-enabled applications.
- Partner with development teams to streamline deployment processes.
- Improve engineering productivity through reusable templates, automation scripts, and deployment patterns.
- Support DevOps, SRE, and operational excellence practices across cloud environments.
- Implement security controls across AWS application environments.
- Configure IAM roles, policies, access controls, encryption, secrets, certificates, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Support VPC endpoint and PrivateLink patterns for private connectivity.
- Ensure cloud environments meet enterprise standards for cybersecurity, data protection, auditability, resiliency, and compliance.
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Cloud Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Risk, and Infrastructure teams.
- Support architecture reviews, cloud governance approvals, risk assessments, and production readiness processes.
- Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and observability solutions for AWS-hosted applications.
- Utilize CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, Grafana, application logs, infrastructure metrics, and health checks.
- Build dashboards and operational views for application and infrastructure support.
- Perform root cause analysis and lead resolution of complex production issues.
- Develop runbooks, operational procedures, monitoring standards, and support documentation.
- Improve platform reliability, incident response, and operational maturity.
- Support secure integrations between AWS-hosted applications and enterprise platforms.
- Build and support integration patterns involving internal enterprise applications, Workday, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, vendor SaaS platforms, enterprise AI platforms, and data and reporting platforms.
- Implement API-based, scheduled, event-driven, and service-to-service integration patterns.
- Ensure integrations are reliable, secure, observable, and production-ready.
- Troubleshoot complex connectivity, authentication, data flow, and application interaction issues.
- Serve as a senior AWS engineering authority across Corporate Functions Technology.
- Provide technical guidance to development teams, cloud engineers, data engineers, and delivery partners.
- Lead technical design reviews, deployment reviews, code reviews, and operational readiness assessments.
- Establish AWS engineering standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.
- Mentor engineers on cloud-native development, AI deployment patterns, observability, security, automation, and production support.
- Influence technical direction across multiple Corporate Functions initiatives.
- Experience with Databricks.
- Experience building data pipelines, lakehouse solutions, or enterprise data processing frameworks.
- Experience integrating AWS-hosted applications with enterprise data platforms.
- Experience with Java, Python, SQL, or modern backend development frameworks.
- Experience with containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Experience with Agent-to-Agent integration patterns, enterprise AI orchestration, or workflow-driven AI solutions.
- Experience supporting Corporate Functions domains such as HR, Legal, Audit, Compliance, Risk, Security, Realty, or Finance.
- Experience within financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- AWS Professional-level certifications are strongly preferred.
- AWS AI/ML, Security, DevOps, or Architecture certifications are preferred.
- Databricks certification is a plus.
State Street provides asset management and custody banking services for institutional investors worldwide, with State Street Global Advisors managing portfolios and offering advisory services. It generates revenue from asset management fees, transaction fees, and custody/administration fees, plus income from its own investments and lending activities. The company differentiates itself through its global scale and focus on institutional clients, offering integrated asset management, custody, administration, research, and trading across a broad network. Its goal is to help institutional clients meet their financial objectives by delivering comprehensive investment, risk management, and custody solutions on a global platform.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded
1792
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue rose 16.7% to $4.05 billion; EPS beat by 9.2%.
- State Street won $87 million servicing fees and $384 billion new AUC/A in Q2.
- The August 2026 preferred offering raised about $497 million for capital flexibility.
What critics are saying
- State Street plans $500 million severance through 2029 for cloud automation and headcount cuts.
- The LatAm acquisition needs regulatory approval, delaying synergies until 2027.
- If asset-servicing fees keep falling, State Street becomes a low-return utility.
What makes State Street unique
- State Street controls $57.86 trillion AUC/A and $6.28 trillion AUM, dominating institutional plumbing.
- The Santander CACEIS Latam deal adds $470 billion custody in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia.
- Dublin and Kilkenny investments deepen State Street’s global operations and cybersecurity footprint.
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Company News
State Street Corporation has launched a public offering of 500,000 depositary shares, each representing one-hundredth of a Series L perpetual preferred stock share. The new Series L class features fixed-rate reset dividends aligned with risk-free rates. The company filed a Form 8-K on 5 August 2026 detailing the preferred stock amendments and offering structure. The depositary shares allow both institutional and retail investors to access the Series L preferred stock without committing to full shares, potentially broadening the investor base. State Street also announced it is changing its fiscal year to align with the calendar year, improving comparability with industry peers and streamlining tax filings. The company confirmed compliance with SEC regulations and reported no material adverse events. The perpetual structure provides State Street with capital structure flexibility whilst offering investors long-term income opportunities.
BlackRock positions tokenized cash for the stablecoin era. BlackRock is expanding deeper into tokenized finance, this time targeting one of the fastest-growing opportunities created by U.S. stablecoin regulation: managing the assets that sit behind digital dollars. The world's largest asset manager has introduced two blockchain-based money market products designed to qualify as reserve assets for permitted U.S. payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. The first, BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund, or BSTBL, is a tokenized share class of an existing BlackRock money market fund. Shares are available on Ethereum, giving institutional investors blockchain-based access to a traditional Treasury-focused liquidity product. The second, BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle, or BRSRV, is a newly created money market fund designed specifically with stablecoin reserves in mind. It offers daily dividend reinvestment and is being made accessible across multiple blockchains. Securitize serves as its transfer agent and tokenization provider. The launches point to a potentially significant consequence of stablecoin regulation. Stablecoin issuers generally need highly liquid, low-risk assets backing the tokens they put into circulation. Under the U.S. regulatory framework, that means instruments such as cash, Treasury securities and qualifying investment products. For large asset managers, those reserve requirements create a new pool of institutional money to manage. BlackRock has made clear that it wants a significant role in that market. The company already manages about $60 billion in reserves for Circle, the issuer of USDC, according to comments from BlackRock Chief Financial Officer Martin Small during its second-quarter earnings call. That represents a substantial share of a stablecoin market now valued at roughly $300 billion. BlackRock is not entering tokenized finance from scratch. In 2024, it launched the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, better known as BUIDL, with Securitize. The tokenized money market fund has since grown to approximately $2.5 billion in assets and has increasingly been used within crypto markets as collateral. BSTBL and BRSRV take the strategy a step further. Instead of simply putting an investment fund on a blockchain, BlackRock is positioning tokenized funds as part of the financial infrastructure supporting regulated stablecoins. The opportunity has also attracted competitors. State Street, Franklin Templeton, Invesco and other large asset managers are developing products aimed at the growing market for stablecoin reserves and tokenized cash. This could create an unusual relationship between traditional asset management and digital currencies. Stablecoins are sometimes portrayed as competitors to traditional finance because they can move money outside conventional banking and payment networks. Yet their growth may simultaneously create demand for some of Wall Street's most traditional products: Treasury securities and money market funds. Tokenization adds another layer. Reserve assets themselves can increasingly exist in blockchain-compatible form, potentially allowing issuers to manage liquidity, collateral and settlement within the same digital infrastructure used for stablecoins. BlackRock has argued to U.S. regulators that tokenized versions of eligible reserve assets should not face additional limits merely because they are recorded on a distributed ledger. The company maintains that credit quality, duration and liquidity - rather than the underlying technology - should determine an asset's risk. That position offers a clue to where the market may be heading. Stablecoins may be crypto-native products, but the infrastructure beneath them is rapidly becoming institutional. As regulation defines what issuers can hold, major asset managers are competing to manage those reserves and bring them on-chain. BlackRock's latest launches suggest that the stablecoin boom may ultimately create as much opportunity for traditional finance as it does for crypto companies.
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State Street appoints Kenneth Vamshi as Managing Director. Prior to joining State Street, Vamshi was associated with HSBC for more than 22 years State Street has appointed Kenneth Vamshi as Managing Director, with Hyderabad serving as his base of operations. A seasoned finance and transformation leader, Vamshi brings deep expertise in finance operations, digital transformation and the establishment of global capability centres (GCCs). Over the course of his career, he has spearheaded finance transformation programmes and built GCCs across complex, multi-country business environments. Vamshi joins State Street after spending more than 22 years at HSBC. In his most recent role, he served as Senior Vice President, Head of Digital Finance and GCC Site Head, where he led digital finance initiatives and oversaw the company's GCC operations.