DTCC

Cloud Development Engineering Principal

DTCC • $150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering.
  • Hands-on expertise in designing AWS infrastructure in enterprise settings.
  • Advanced knowledge of Terraform, focusing on reusable module development and state management.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools integration and Git-based workflows for deployment.
  • Solid understanding of AWS services, particularly in networking, security, and managed databases.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
  • Familiar with cloud operational models, governance, and reusable infrastructure blueprints.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code patterns for AWS.
  • Build AWS infrastructure blueprints for various workloads including compute, networking, and security.
  • Implement secure AWS environments using services like EC2, EKS, and Lambda.
  • Integrate Terraform into CI/CD pipelines and change management workflows.
  • Enable self-service infrastructure provisioning through automation templates and APIs.
  • Maintain Terraform state management and environment promotion standards.
  • Implement cloud security best practices and compliance controls.

Benefits

  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including IT, business, and regulatory divisions.
  • Opportunities for thought leadership in the application of technology to financial markets.
  • Access to advanced technological platforms and tools.
  • Engagement in strategic initiatives supporting DTCC's mission.
  • Potential to impact the financial services landscape through innovative solutions.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

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.

About DTCC

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is a financial services company that provides clearing, settlement, and information services for the global financial industry. DTCC was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York City. The company operates through subsidiaries that provide services such as trade matching, risk management, and asset servicing. DTCC is owned by its users, which include broker-dealers, banks, and other financial institutions. The company is committed to reducing risk and increasing efficiency in the financial markets.
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4,000 employees
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Founded
1973

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