Cloud Development Engineering Principal
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)4 days ago
Jersey City, NJ, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code patterns for AWS services.
- Build standardized AWS infrastructure blueprints covering compute, networking, security, storage, messaging, and observability.
- Implement secure and scalable AWS environments using services including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, KMS, and Secrets Manager.
- 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.
- Manage Terraform state, module versioning, releases, and environment promotion standards.
- Implement cloud security guardrails including least-privilege IAM, encryption, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and compliance controls.
- Collaborate with platform, cloud, application, security, and operations teams on enterprise technology governance and architecture standards.
- Troubleshoot AWS and Terraform deployment issues across development, test, and production environments.
- Establish infrastructure best practices for provisioning, tagging, cost optimization, resiliency, and operational readiness.
Requirements
- At least 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 modules, remote state management, workspaces, providers, variables, outputs, and module versioning.
- Experience integrating Terraform with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, security services, compute platforms, managed databases, storage, monitoring, and resiliency patterns.
- Experience with Git-based workflows, code reviews, automated testing, infrastructure release management, security controls, compliance, governance, and policy-as-code.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Understanding of cloud operating models, landing zones, account structures, environment provisioning, and reusable infrastructure blueprints.
- 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 is valued.
- Experience in large-scale enterprise environments with complex governance, security, resiliency, and integration requirements is valued.
- Financial services experience is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including base pay and annual incentive.
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits based on location.
- Pension and retirement benefits.
- Paid time off, personal and family care, and other leaves of absence.
- Flexible hybrid work model with three days onsite and two days remote, with onsite days including Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a team- or employee-specific third day.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAWSBashGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsKubernetesOpenShiftPowerShellPythonTerraform
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About Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) runs global post-trade market infrastructure, delivering clearing, settlement, securities depository, trade reporting, and data services for broker-dealers, banks, and asset managers. It provides these services through subsidiaries such as DTC, NSCC, FICC, and the Global Trade Repository, with revenue primarily from transaction and service fees. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, DTCC is industry-owned and privately held, serving markets across multiple regions.