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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

Lead Platform Engineer

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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
The Lead Platform Engineer will manage Kubernetes and Linux infrastructure, oversee container ecosystems, provide engineering support, and ensure CI/CD processes while mentoring team members and improving system performance.
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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 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. 
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 Platform 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 Platform 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: 

  • Manage and maintain existing Kubernetes and Linux server infrastructure.
  • Manage the container platform ecosystem (Break fix, monitoring) via IaC.
  • Manage, independently installs, customizes, and integrated commercial software packages via IaC.
  • Upgrading and patching Kubernetes environment, preferably OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
  • Development, Defect fixing, User stories using JIRA, Root cause analysis, Project Install support and Maintenance
  • Contribute to and support the corporate Enterprise Container Strategy.
  • Cluster capacity management and provisioning through automation of underlying hosts
  • Provide L1 and L2 engineering support to developers and other engineers.
  • Work with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing code and/or perform unit testing.
  • Identify ideas to improve system performance and impact availability.
  • Create system documentation/playbook(s).
  • Partner with experienced team members to develop accurate work estimates on work packages.
  • May serve as a mentor on procedural matters to less experienced internal and third-party team members.
  • May assist team members with the delegation of work packages.
  • Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.
  • Developer background is a plus.

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

Qualifications:

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

Talents Needed for Success:

  • Platform or Devops engineer with at least 4 Years’ experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Jenkins, CI/CD, AWS, and VMware.
  • Proficient in code compilation, packaging, and deployment. Experienced in code analysis and coverage tools like SonarQube.
  • Knowledge and experience implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, GitHub and Jenkins, infrastructure automation, and cloud environments. 
  • Knowledge in creating branching strategies, merging, and managing access in version control tools like Git.
  • Trained in Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Bash scripting, YAML, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana and JIRA 
  • Knowledge in tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Cluster, AWS, Ansible and Terraform. 
  • Hands-on experience with Jenkins for continuous integration and end-to-end automation of builds and deployments. 
  • Knowledge in AWS provisioning of AWS services such as EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, VPC, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, Lambda, SG and SNS. 
  • Knowledge and Hands-on experience in VMware provisioning with knowledge of provisioning vm’s, disk storage and all TCPIP related services, such as DNS.
  • Knowledge in creating Docker files, building images, running containers, and managing Docker volumes and registries. 
  • Knowledge of GitOps and ArgoCD concepts and implementations.

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
With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

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.

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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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