Lead Systems Engineer

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? 

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. 

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Systems Engineering family is responsible for the entire technical effort to evolve and verify solutions that satisfy client needs. The primary focus is centered on reducing risk and improving the efficiency, performance, stability, security, and quality of all systems and platforms. The Systems Engineering role specializes in the analysis, evaluation, design, testing, implementation, support, and debugging of all middleware, mainframe, and distributed platforms, tools, and systems of the firm.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Leverage OpenShift/Kubernetes to containerize applications for scalable and portable deployments.
• Help troubleshooting OpenShift/Kubernetes application onboarding, deployments, problems and incidents related to Web Middleware
• Designing, developing, and deploying the applications by utilizing Ansible, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins and GitLab within a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Support the Web Middleware Technology Team in onboarding new applications using Chef and CI/CD pipelines and work on lifecycle management of SSL certificates.
• Orchestrating the seamless installation and configuration of middleware software systems for the smooth integration and operation.
• Utilize AWS Cloud Services to efficiently manage and support various aspects of the organization's infrastructure.
• Life cycle management of SSL certificates like creation, renewal, retention, and revocation
• Ensuring the application of necessary security patches to the servers to safeguard against potential vulnerabilities.
• Collaborating with various teams on projects, propose solutions, and address the technical issues.
• Defining performance standards for the middleware systems and continuously monitoring their performance to ensure they meet established benchmarks.
• Modify the existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.
• Monitor functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift.
• Application Servers:  Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, IBM Liberty.
• Version Control Systems: Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub.
• Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Chef, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Cloud Computing Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google cloud, Azure.
• Build and Dependency Management: Jenkins, Maven, and Gradle.
• Streaming Platform: Apache Kafka.
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Ansible.
• Operating Systems and Scripting: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Bash Shell script, Java Script and Python.