What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Platform Engineer position at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation?
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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're 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.
Pay and Benefits:
The impact you will have in this role:
The Lead Platform Engineer will share a point of view to IT staff on how to build mature automated solutions demonstrating Infrastructure as code (IaC) and Software Development practices. They will maintain and develop new automated capabilities like IaC Pipelines, Shared Services/modules, and additional automated solutions in the teams portfolio. They will provide platform support for the automation tools ensuring stable and reliable platforms to complete automation. They will manage their work using agile practices and will use software development principles including version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **
Qualifications:
Talents Needed for Success:
The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Us
DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.
DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.
Learn more about Clearance and Settlement by clicking here .
About the Team
Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering transforms the way we deliver infrastructure to our business clients. A key construct of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with the Engineering organization, the Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, the DevSecOps organization as well as our operational support teams to ensure that this organization provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.
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're 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.
Pay and Benefits:
- 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 impact you will have in this role:
The Lead Platform Engineer will share a point of view to IT staff on how to build mature automated solutions demonstrating Infrastructure as code (IaC) and Software Development practices. They will maintain and develop new automated capabilities like IaC Pipelines, Shared Services/modules, and additional automated solutions in the teams portfolio. They will provide platform support for the automation tools ensuring stable and reliable platforms to complete automation. They will manage their work using agile practices and will use software development principles including version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Evaluate requirements, design, and guide service owners in creating automated solutions that meet the needs of our customers with a focus on self-service automation.
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities for existing automation enablement platforms and services and implement enhancements.
- Identify bugs and issues with existing automated platforms and services and implement fixes.
- Administration of our automation tools including but not limited to: user access, monitoring environment health, performing application upgrades, designing infrastructure to meet capacity, performance, and availability needs, providing knowledge transfer to level one support teams, opening support cases with vendor and escalation as needed.
- Identify pain points and inefficient processes and develop creative automated solutions to solve them.
- Evaluate return on investment of automation opportunities to aid in prioritization.
- Establish ways to measure the value our automated solutions will realize for our customers.
- Promote the benefits of automation by contributing to communications outlining the value our solutions provide to the organization.
**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant Production support experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Talents Needed for Success:
- 3-5 years coding experience OR equivalent training / course work experience
- Strong experience in at least one configuration management tool (Ansible, Chef, Terraform)
- Strong experience in at least one programming language (Python, Groovy...etc)
- Basic knowledge of Infrastructure components such as storage, networking, and server.
- Basic Knowledge of AWS Cloud and Services especially ec2
- Good communication skills and problem-solving ability
- Desire to learn new technologies and programming languages
- Knowledge of the Red Hat Linux Operating System
- Experience coding with Angular
- Experience developing Ansible Playbooks and administering Ansible Tower/Ansible Automation Platform
- Experience developing Chef cookbooks or administering the Chef Server
- Experience with Linux Shell Scripting and/or Python coding
- Experience working with AWS cloud services
- Experience using git for version control and working knowledge of gitflow
- Experience using Scrum or Kanban to manage tasks
The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Us
DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.
DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.
Learn more about Clearance and Settlement by clicking here .
About the Team
Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering transforms the way we deliver infrastructure to our business clients. A key construct of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with the Engineering organization, the Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, the DevSecOps organization as well as our operational support teams to ensure that this organization provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.
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