DevSecOps Engineering Senior Associate

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health & life insurance

Pension/Retirement

Paid Time Off

Hybrid work model (3 onsite / 2 remote

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure Azure-based infrastructure for digital assets and financial services workloads. You will implement landing zones, governance, identity management, and scalable networking, while maintaining a strong security posture and regulatory alignment.

You will work with a talented team to automate deployments, improve observability, and participate in on-call rotations, ensuring reliable, scalable cloud services across

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Operate and extend the Azure environment supporting Digital Assets today.
• Implement and operate the Azure landing zone to the established standard, including subscription and resource group structure, tagging, and cost allocation.
• Implement governance in code through Azure Policy and Management Groups, and own the remediation work when the estate drifts out of compliance.
• Configure and operate Entra ID in production, and carry out the identity translation when workloads move from on-premises or AWS, with no regression in security posture at cutover.
• Operate the compute and networking fabric in production, and diagnose faults across the path, including private endpoints and DNS resolution for migrated workloads.
• Maintain the security posture of the estate: manage Wiz findings, drive vulnerability remediation to closure, and operate privileged access through PIM in line with regulatory requirements.
• Own the Terraform for your area and the pipelines that deploy them, applying the same rigor expected of application code.
• Participate in on-call rotation, run the root cause analysis, and automate the fix so the condition stops recurring.

Skills

Azure

AKS

Terraform

Python

Go

PowerShell

YAML

JSON

CI/CD

KQL

Azure Monitor

Datadog

OpsGenie

PagerDuty

Azure Policy

Education

Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

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

As a member of our Cloud Platform Engineering team, you will help deliver the secure, reliable Azure platform that enables DTCC to serve as the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets, including the platform behind DTCC's recent production trades using tokenized securities. You will collaborate with a dynamic and highly skilled team to design, secure and operate mission-critical cloud environments, including landing zones, networking, governance and Kubernetes, using Terraform and automation-first practices. At the forefront of innovation in the financial markets, you will help strengthen the resiliency and security of our platform and play a key role in growing our U.S. engineering presence.

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Operate and extend the Azure environment supporting Digital Assets today and build the foundation for additional workloads migrating to Azure
• Implement and operate the Azure landing zone to the established standard, including subscription and resource group structure, tagging, and cost allocation
• Implement governance in code through Azure Policy and Management Groups, and own the remediation work when the estate drifts out of compliance
• Configure and operate Entra ID in production, and carry out the identity translation when workloads move from on-premises or AWS, with no regression in security posture at cutover
• Operate the compute and networking fabric in production, and diagnose faults across the path, including private endpoints and DNS resolution for migrated workloads
• Maintain the security posture of the estate: manage Wiz findings, drive vulnerability remediation to closure, and operate privileged access through PIM in line with regulatory requirements
• Own the Terraform for your area and the pipelines that deploy them, applying the same rigor expected of application code
• Participate in on-call rotation, run the root cause analysis, and automate the fix so the condition stops recurring

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

Qualifications

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

Talents Needed For Success

• Deployed and operated an Azure landing zone in production, including subscription structure, policy baseline, and hybrid connectivity
• Migrated workloads into Azure, from identity translation through network path validation to production cutover
• Implemented Azure Policy at scale in code, and worked the remediation that follows
• Operated AKS in production, including upgrades, pod identity failures, scaling behavior, and networking faults
• Configured and operated Entra ID across multi-application and multi-tenant patterns, including Conditional Access and PIM edge cases
• Managed cloud security posture in production: Wiz, vulnerability assessment and remediation, and threat detection in a regulated estate
• Working KQL fluency across Log Analytics and Application Insights, and posture management through Wiz
• Azure platform knowledge: Management Groups, Subscriptions, ARM hierarchy, Cloud Adoption Framework
• Networking knowledge: VNets, ExpressRoute, Private Link, Azure DNS, Virtual WAN, and the security controls across the path (NSG/ASG, firewalls, NAT, VPN)
• Terraform fluency, including modules, state management, and CI/CD pipeline integration
• Infrastructure as code pipelines: GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
• Strong knowledge of at least one programming language, Python or Go, plus scripting proficiency in PowerShell, YAML, and JSON
• Observability and alerting platform experience such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Datadog, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie
• AWS experience a plus, cross-cloud operational patterns apply and the broader team operates a multi-cloud estate
• Experience operating in a regulated or financial services environment preferred
• Sound judgment on when to automate, when to elevate, and when a manual change needs to go back into code
• Professional certifications in DevSecOps or information security, such as Certified DevSecOps Professional CISSP, or Certified Ethical Hacker, are a plus

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!

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.