Cloud Development Engineering Principal

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive health & life insurance

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off & Family care leaves

Hybrid onsite 3 days / remote 2 days

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a Senior AWS and Terraform Engineer to design, build, and automate enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure across AWS using Terraform. You will create reusable modules, enforce security, and align with governance standards while enabling scalable provisioning for multiple teams.

The role emphasizes CI/CD integration, state management, and collaboration with security and platform teams in a hybrid work model across US locations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong Terraform expertise with reusable modules and remote state.
• Hands-on AWS networking, IAM, security, compute and storage.
• Experience integrating Terraform with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of policy-as-code and governance controls.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Terraform modules and IaC patterns for AWS.
• Create standardized AWS infrastructure blueprints for compute, network, security, and storage.
• Build secure, scalable AWS environments (VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB).
• Integrate Terraform with CI/CD pipelines and enterprise change processes.
• Enable self-service provisioning through reusable templates and APIs.
• Triage and resolve complex AWS/Terraform deployment issues.
• Establish best practices for tagging, cost optimization, resiliency, and observability.

Tools

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

Scripting

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'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 Senior AWS and Terraform Engineer will design, build, and automate enterprise‑grade cloud infrastructure capabilities across AWS using Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code practices. This role will be central to enabling standardized, secure, and repeatable environment provisioning for application and platform teams. The individual will help mature cloud platform engineering by creating reusable Terraform modules, delivery patterns, and automation workflows that accelerate provisioning while aligning with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure‑as‑code patterns for AWS services.
• Build standardized AWS infrastructure blueprints for common workload archetypes, including compute, networking, security, storage, messaging, and observability components.
• Implement secure and scalable AWS environments using services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager, and related platform services.
• Integrate Terraform automation with CI/CD pipelines, source control, policy‑as‑code, security scanning, and enterprise change management workflows.
• Enable self‑service infrastructure provisioning through reusable modules, templates, APIs, and platform automation workflows.
• Develop and maintain Terraform state management, module versioning, release practices, and environment promotion standards.
• Implement cloud security guardrails including IAM least privilege, encryption, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and compliance controls.
• Collaborate with platform, cloud, application, security, and operations teams to align solutions with architecture standards and enterprise technology governance.
• Troubleshoot complex AWS and Terraform deployment issues across development, test, and production environments.
• Establish best practices for infrastructure such as code, cloud provisioning, tagging, cost optimization, resiliency, and operational readiness.

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

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technology delivery experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience designing and implementing AWS infrastructure in enterprise environments.
• Advanced Terraform experience, including reusable module development, remote state management, workspaces, providers, variables, outputs, and module versioning.
• Experience integrating Terraform with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar pipeline technologies.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, security services, compute platforms, managed databases, storage, monitoring, and resiliency patterns.
• Experience with Git‑based workflows, code review practices, automated testing, and infrastructure release management.
• Experience implementing security, compliance, and governance controls using infrastructure as code and policy‑as‑code practices.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Solid understanding of cloud operating models, landing zone concepts, account structures, environment provisioning, and reusable infrastructure blueprints.

Talents Needed For Success

• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift on AWS, including EKS or ROSA/OpenShift integration patterns.
• Experience with Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise, Atlantis, Terragrunt, Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, Checkov, Tfsec, or comparable IaC governance tools.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS Security Specialty are preferred.
• Familiarity with platform engineering operating models, self‑service provisioning, golden paths, and developer experience enablement.
• Experience in large‑scale enterprise environments with complex governance, security, resiliency, and integration requirements.
• Financial services experience is preferred but not required.

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.