Senior Principal Infrastructure Architect
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)1 month 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 change management workflows.
- Enable self-service infrastructure provisioning through reusable modules, templates, APIs, and platform automation.
- Manage Terraform state, module versioning, release practices, and environment promotion standards.
- Implement cloud security guardrails involving least privilege, encryption, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and compliance controls.
- Collaborate with platform, cloud, application, security, and operations teams on architecture and governance standards.
- Troubleshoot complex AWS and Terraform deployment issues across development, test, and production environments.
- Establish best practices for infrastructure as code, cloud provisioning, tagging, cost optimization, resiliency, and operational readiness.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of related experience is required.
- Seven or more years of cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technology delivery experience is required.
- A bachelor's degree is preferred, or equivalent experience may qualify.
- 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 Jenkins, GitOps, GitLab CI, or similar pipeline technologies.
- Strong knowledge 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, and policy-as-code controls.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift on AWS, including OCP integration patterns.
- Experience with Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise, Atlantis, Terragrunt, Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, Checkov, tfsec, or comparable infrastructure 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.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver production-ready AWS infrastructure with architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model with three days onsite and two days remote, with onsite days typically including Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a third team- or employee-specific day.
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits based on location.
- Pension and retirement benefits.
- Paid time off and personal/family care and other leaves of absence.
- Professional development investment and support.
- Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities.
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