Lead Systems Engineer

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

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.

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 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:

- Designing, developing, and deploying the applications by utilizing Chef, Ansible, Jenkins and GitLab within a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
- Orchestrating the seamless installation and configuration of middleware software systems especially Kafka and Tomcat for the smooth integration and operation.
- Leverage OpenShift to containerize applications, enabling easy movement across different environments and efficient scaling as needed.
- Utilize AWS Cloud Services to efficiently manage and support various aspects of the organization's infrastructure.
- Life cycle management of SSL certificates like request, renewal, retire, 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.
- Automate installation and configuration of middleware software. Write scripts/utilities for repeatable/reusable tasks and operations.
- 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.
- Production and on-call support during the weekend, off hours and Disaster Recovery Tests

Qualifications:

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

Talents Needed for Success:

- CI/CD Tools: Atlassian Bitbucket, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira.
- Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift.
- Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTPD
- Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Chef, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
- Cloud Computing Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Build and Dependency Management: Jenkins, Maven, and Gradle.
- Streaming Platform: Confluent and Apache Kafka.
- Operating Systems and Scripting: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Bash Shell script, Java Script, and Python.
- Monitoring: Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch
- Software Development Methodologies: DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall

Nice to have:

- Certification in Redhat OpenShift Container Platform
- Certification in Kafka

ABOUT THE TEAM

IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.