Senior Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and life insurance

Paid Time Off

Hybrid model: 3 days onsite / 2 days 0

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a senior cloud/DevOps engineer to build and migrate a cloud-native platform, focusing on stateless, scalable services and incremental cloud adoption. The role emphasizes automation to shorten test cycles and resilient, observable systems with cost discipline.

Ideal candidates have deep cloud-native development expertise, hands-on experience with containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, IaC, and CI/CD practices, plus strong telemetry and cost-management skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and migrate the cloud-native platform. Design stateless, horizontally scalable services and move the estate toward full cloud adoption.
• Remove delivery bottlenecks through automation. Create disposable, self-service environments to shorten testing cycles.
• Engineer production resilience, observability, and cost discipline with actionable traces, metrics, SLIs, and cost controls.

Skills

Cloud-native

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Stateless design

Resilience patterns

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-code

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Prometheus/Grafana

Cost/FinOps

Kafka

Snowflake

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Dynatrace

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Snowflake

Job description

DTCC is seeking a senior cloud/DevOps engineer to build and migrate a cloud-native platform, focusing on stateless, scalable services and incremental cloud adoption. The role emphasizes automation to shorten test cycles and resilient, observable systems with cost discipline.

Ideal candidates have deep cloud-native development expertise, hands-on experience with containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, IaC, and CI/CD practices, plus strong telemetry and cost-management skills.