Lead Platform Engineer

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Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)

Why you'll love this job:

The Lead Platform Engineer is responsible for driving platform strategy and support for the Private Cloud infrastructure services environment. This includes performing design analysis, creating and maintaining documentation, planning, testing and implementation. This role requires experience and product knowledge in the areas of server virtualization, storage, networking, operating systems, and automation.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform design analysis, documentation, and planning for strategic IT initiatives/solutions
• Provide technical design guidance, governance and support to platform engineering teams
• Engage external vendors when needed to review standard methodologies, architecture and design proposals, and solve complex problems
• Actively engage in strategic goals for Private Cloud engineering, the department, and the organization
• Create and update technical/architectural/strategic documentation in support of the Private Cloud infrastructure
• Provide design and Senior engineering level escalation technical support to platform teams
• Collaborate with other teams to develop automation strategies and deployment processes
• Provide input and follow-through on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
• Ensure delivered solutions enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience to support required product needs throughout product lifecycle
• Maintain and enhance platform configurations to meet the demands and requirements of our customers
• Provide immediate support for production issues related to areas of expertise
• Provide support for off-hour / weekend implementation and Disaster Recovery tests as required
• Author system documentation and supporting documents to ensure transparency of design to minimize future maintenance costs
• Deliver targeted business outcomes by participating in the technical decision-making process
• Analyze changing business requirements to determine impact and optimal solution regarding defining the future state technical architecture
• Follow established DTCC requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise (standard processes)
• Apply knowledge of technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to contribute to the decision-making process
• Monitor metrics to ensure system performance meets requirements
• Ensure alignment to the governance, standards and best practices established by DTCC
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; advances appropriately

NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Talents Needed For Success:

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

Additional Qualifications:

• Strong background in server virtualization (primarily VMware) planning and design
• Strong background in storage technologies (block, file, object) planning and design
• Working knowledge of networking (layer 2 and layer 3 connectivity)
• Working knowledge of automation and orchestration at an Enterprise level
• Familiarity with Operating Systems (i.e., Windows, UNIX, LINUX) a plus
• Highly motivated, self-starter who can support multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment

Who We Are:

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 crucial 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.

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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