Job Description

The Impact you will have in this role:

You will lead the team responsible for engineering and supporting the firm's Linux platform.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll manage a team of engineers while remaining actively involved in platform design, automation, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making.

You'll be responsible for Linux operating system standards, platform automation, modernization, observability, operating system lifecycle management, and Linux platform engineering across on-premises and cloud environments. You'll work closely with Security, Network Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Risk, Audit, and Application Development teams to ensure the platform remains secure, reliable, scalable, and easy to consume.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Linux platform engineers responsible for the design, delivery, and support of enterprise Linux services.
• Set technical direction for Linux platform standards, operating system architecture, and engineering practices.
• Act as the escalation point for complex Linux platform issues.
• Make technical decisions that improve platform reliability, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Mentor engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Continue the evolution of our automation-first operating model.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Ansible and related technologies.
• Eliminate manual processes through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Ensure configuration consistency through automated validation, drift detection, and remediation.
• Identify opportunities to reduce operational toil and improve engineering efficiency.
• Own Linux image creation, packaging, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and immutable infrastructure practices.
• Integrate operating system engineering into CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve the speed, consistency, and reliability of Linux platform deployments.
• Establish standards that support repeatable and automated platform delivery.
• Work closely with Security, Risk, Audit, Network Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Application Development teams.
• Support audit and regulatory requirements through engineering solutions and automation.
• Ensure Linux platforms integrate securely with identity, authentication, and secrets-management services.
• Participate in major platform modernization and infrastructure initiatives.
• Drive improvements in platform stability, resilience, and recoverability.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for significant incidents.
• Ensure Linux services are observable, supportable, and backed by meaningful monitoring and alerting.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and resiliency testing.
• Help establish operational standards that improve service reliability.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 8+ years of experience in Linux, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Experience leading engineers, technical teams, or major platform initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and enterprise Linux technologies.
• Strong automation experience using Ansible.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar technologies.
• Experience building and supporting highly available enterprise platforms.
• Experience integrating infrastructure solutions into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to coach engineers while remaining technically engaged.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Linux: (Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Satellite, SELinux, systemd)
• Automation: (Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform, Python, Bash, shell scripting)
• Infrastructure as Code: (Terraform, TFLint, Terratest, Checkov)
• Source Control: (GitHub Enterprise, Git, pull requests, code reviews)
• CI/CD: (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Artifactory)
• Cloud: (AWS, Azure)
• Containers: (OpenShift, Kubernetes)
• Observability: (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace)

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.

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About the Team

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.