Cloud Platform Engineer - APIM, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

Who we are looking for

Charles River Development is looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer who will build, harden and monitor the infrastructure our SaaS core infrastructure, application platforms, and data platforms - with strong expertise in Azure API Management (APIM) to support our firm’s digital transformation and cloud modernization initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record implementing secure, scalable, and compliant API solutions within a regulated financial environment, ensuring alignment with enterprise governance and data protection standards. The position is a highly dynamic technical role that will participate in the design, delivery, and oversight of Azure infrastructure with a focus on automation and cyber resiliency.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is a part of Charles River Development (or CRD), that became a part of State Street in 2018. CRD helps create enterprise investment management software solutions for large institutions in the areas of institutional investment, wealth management and hedge funds. Together we have created first open front-to-back platform - State Street Alpha, that was launched in 2019.

Join us if delivering next generation infrastructure, using emerging technologies like AI and Blockchain sounds like a challenge you are up for.

What you will be responsible for

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will:

• Design and set up highly available platform components on Azure Cloud
• Design, deploy, and manage Azure API Management (APIM) solutions supporting internal and external financial applications.
• Implement API governance and lifecycle management, ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and data-handling standards required in financial services.
• Collaborate with architecture and security teams to integrate APIM with Azure Application Gateway, Azure AD, and private networking models.
• Establish secure API onboarding processes for business and partner integrations.
• Automate infrastructure deployment using ARM/Bicep/Terraform/Azure Devops and ensure consistency across non-production and production environments.
• Optimize performance and reliability of APIs through monitoring, tuning, and analytics using Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
• Work closely with InfoSec, Risk, and Compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements (e.g., SOC2, ISO27001).
• Support integration of APIM with firewalls, WAFs (e.g., Palo Alto), and zero-trust network architectures.
• Provide technical mentorship to engineers and contribute to cloud best-practice frameworks across the organization.
• Configure and manage the CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps according to best practices
• Balance pragmatism with vision; continually assessing the security posture of cloud applications and deliver improvements to the team’s tools, processes and codebase
• Contribute documentation & collaboration site content to drive knowledge sharing
• Ensure that new cloud solutions properly implement security controls as standards dictate

What we value

• Applied expertise in designing/implementing secure platforms for applications and data
• Thorough understanding of both Windows and Linux-based infrastructure
• A passion for learning about emerging technologies and sharing knowledge
• Experience documenting technology standards, operational procedures, and requirements

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Azure Cloud Engineering, including APIM, networking, and automation.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining enterprise-grade APIM implementations.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, private endpoints, VNETs, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
• Strong grasp of security and identity management principles — Azure AD, Key Vault, Managed Identities, RBAC.
• Familiarity with financial industry controls such as data encryption, segregation of duties, and least-privilege models.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and collaboration skills in a matrixed financial organization.

Additional requirements

Work experience in multiple public clouds preferred

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of m