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Corporate Functions Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – VP III
Who We Are Looking For
We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on technology leader to serve as the Corporate Functions Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – VP III, responsible for designing, engineering, deploying, and supporting complex AWS-based applications and AI-enabled platforms across Corporate Functions Technology.
This role is intended for a senior cloud engineer who can operate as a principal-level technical contributor with deep hands-on expertise across the AWS ecosystem. The successful candidate will be responsible for building secure, scalable, production-ready cloud solutions that support enterprise applications, intelligent assistants, AI-enabled workflows, automation, integrations, data services, and operationally resilient platforms.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience deploying end-to-end applications into AWS, including networking, compute, application hosting, load balancing, security, data services, secrets management, observability, CI/CD, and production support. This individual must also have hands-on experience enabling AI capabilities within AWS, including Amazon Bedrock, AI service integrations, model endpoint connectivity, AI orchestration patterns, and secure deployment of AI-enabled applications.
This is not a purely advisory or architecture-only role. The candidate must be able to actively engineer, configure, deploy, troubleshoot, automate, and support complex AWS environments while also guiding other engineers and development teams on cloud-native engineering best practices.
Why This Role Matters
Corporate Functions is expanding the use of cloud-native technologies, AI-powered business capabilities, intelligent automation, and modern application platforms across HR, Legal, Audit, Compliance, Risk, Realty, and other business domains.
This role will help establish the engineering foundation required to:
- Deploy secure, scalable, and resilient applications into AWS.
- Enable AI-powered applications and intelligent business workflows.
- Support enterprise-grade architectures across application, data, integration, security, and observability layers.
- Implement reusable AWS engineering patterns that accelerate delivery.
- Improve cloud security, operational resilience, and production maturity.
- Support modernization of legacy platforms into cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions.
- Partner across application, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business teams to deliver measurable business value.
This is a highly visible senior engineering role that will directly influence how Corporate Functions builds, deploys, and operates modern AWS and AI-enabled solutions.
What You Will Be Responsible For
1. AWS Cloud Engineering & Architecture
- 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.
2. End-to-End AWS Application Deployment
- 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
- 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.
3. Required AWS Platform Expertise
Serve as a subject matter expert across core AWS services, including:
- VPC
- Subnets
- Security Groups
- Route 53
- Application Load Balancer
- Auto Scaling Groups
- EC2
- ECS
- EKS
- Lambda
- API Gateway
- EventBridge
- Step Functions
- RDS
- Aurora
- PostgreSQL
- ElastiCache / Redis
- S3
- Secrets Manager
- Certificate Manager
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- IAM
- Systems Manager
- VPC Endpoints
- PrivateLink
The candidate must be able to configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and support these services in complex enterprise environments.
4. AWS AI Engineering & Intelligent Application Enablement
- 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.
5. AWS-Native AI Orchestration & Agentic Patterns
- 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
- 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.
6. Infrastructure Automation & DevOps
- 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.
7. Security, Secrets Management & Cloud Governance
- 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.
8. Monitoring, Observability & Production Support
- Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and observability solutions for AWS-hosted applications.
- Utilize tools such as:
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Application logs
- Infrastructure metrics
- 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.
9. Enterprise Integration & Application Connectivity
- 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
- 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.
10. Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
- 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.
Must-Have Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise application delivery.
- 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 AWS services including:
- 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 / 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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 strongly preferred.
- AWS AI/ML, Security, DevOps, or Architecture certifications preferred.
- Databricks certification is a plus.
What We Value
- Deep hands-on AWS engineering capability.
- Ability to build and operate complex solutions, not just design them.
- Strong understanding of AI-enabled application patterns.
- Practical cloud security and production support mindset.
- Strong ownership and accountability.
- Ability to simplify complex technical challenges.
- Engineering excellence and attention to detail.
- Continuous learning and innovation.
- Strong partnership across business, application, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and data teams.
- Ability to mentor others and raise the overall technical maturity of the organization.
Salary Range:
$110,000 - $207,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Document your AWS certifications strategically
AWS certifications like Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer strengthen your PERM case by demonstrating specialized credentials beyond a general degree. Compile certification dates, exam scores, and employer letters confirming how each credential applies to your specific job duties.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Cloud infrastructure teams at mid-to-large enterprises file PERM more consistently than startups because they have dedicated immigration counsel. Search DOL disclosure data filtered by SOC code 15-1252 to identify companies with recent AWS Engineer sponsorship activity before applying.
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Filter by EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship status on Migrate Mate to surface AWS Engineer openings at employers who have already committed to the PERM process, saving you from negotiating sponsorship willingness from scratch.
Clarify the PERM wage level during offer negotiation
PERM requires your offered wage to meet the DOL prevailing wage for your location and job duties. Before signing an offer, verify that your title and responsibilities align with the wage level the employer intends to use via OFLC Wage Search, since a mismatch can trigger an audit.
Align your job duties with O*NET definitions
USCIS and DOL assess whether your role genuinely requires a specialized degree. Review the O*NET occupation profile for cloud and systems engineers to ensure your job description uses terminology consistent with how the role is officially defined, reducing RFE risk on the I-140.
Track priority dates if you're from India or China
EB-3 priority dates for Indian nationals can be backlogged by years. Filing I-140 approval under EB-2 simultaneously, where your credentials support it, preserves an earlier priority date and gives you options if backlogs shift before your case reaches the front of the queue.
Green Card Aws Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an AWS Engineer role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most AWS Engineer positions qualify for EB-3 as skilled worker roles requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. EB-2 sponsorship is available when the role requires an advanced degree or the employer can demonstrate the position warrants a master's-level candidate. Some employers file under both categories simultaneously to preserve flexibility on priority dates.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for an AWS Engineer?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status with a three-year initial period and an annual lottery for cap-subject petitions. EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship is permanent, has no lottery, and no annual cap at the EB-3 skilled worker level for most countries outside India and China. The PERM process takes longer upfront but the outcome is lawful permanent residency rather than a renewal cycle.
How long does the PERM process take for an AWS Engineer position?
DOL supervised recruitment and PERM certification currently averages around 12 to 18 months before the employer can file the I-140 petition with USCIS. After I-140 approval, adjustment of status wait times depend entirely on your country of birth and the EB-2 or EB-3 priority date backlog. Nationals from most countries outside India and China typically see faster overall timelines.
What should I look for when evaluating an employer's green card sponsorship offer?
Confirm the employer has immigration counsel and an established PERM process rather than treating your case as a first attempt. Ask whether they will file under EB-2, EB-3, or both, and whether they cover attorney fees. Use Migrate Mate to identify employers with a documented history of AWS Engineer sponsorship so you're starting from a stronger negotiating position.
Can I change employers after my I-140 is approved?
Yes. Under AC21 portability rules, once your I-140 has been approved and your adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, you can change to a same or similar occupational role without losing your priority date. For AWS Engineers, roles involving cloud architecture, infrastructure management, or DevOps workflows generally satisfy the same or similar standard.