Senior Cloud Platform Architect & Automation Leader

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base pay and annual incentive

Health and life insurance

Pension / Retirement benefits

PTO and family care leave

Hybrid onsite/remote model

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a Senior Principal Cloud Development Engineer to lead cloud transformation, design scalable platforms, and set engineering standards across teams. You will mentor engineers, drive DevSecOps, IaC, platform engineering, and AI-enabled development practices to accelerate delivery in hybrid environments.

Join a mission-critical infrastructure provider that values secure, reliable technology and collaboration across business units.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating production systems.
• Cloud-native development expertise, including containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, stateless service design, and resilience patterns.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Java/Python with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices.
• Distributed systems troubleshooting experience in production environments.
• Strong instrumentation discipline with OpenTelemetry and tracing.
• Hands-on observability tooling across Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Splunk.
• Cloud cost engineering and FinOps experience, including rightsizing and autoscaling.
• Streaming and data platform exposure, including Kafka and Snowflake.
• Experience operating in hybrid and legacy environments across private/public clouds.
• Fluency in regulated environments and influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Build and migrate the cloud-native platform with stateless, scalable OCP services.
• Remove delivery bottlenecks through automation and self-service environments.
• Engineer production resilience, observability, and cost discipline across compute, storage, and cloud consumption.

Skills

Cloud-native dev

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Terraform/Helm

Distributed systems

FinOps

Hybrid/cloud leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Dynatrace

Splunk

Kafka

Snowflake

Job description

DTCC is seeking a Senior Principal Cloud Development Engineer to lead cloud transformation, design scalable platforms, and set engineering standards across teams. You will mentor engineers, drive DevSecOps, IaC, platform engineering, and AI-enabled development practices to accelerate delivery in hybrid environments.

Join a mission-critical infrastructure provider that values secure, reliable technology and collaboration across business units.