Associate Director Platform Engineering
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)7 months ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, manage, and optimize virtualized infrastructure platforms for performance, availability, and scalability.
- Lead legacy-platform modernization and transformation into cloud-aligned or hybrid architectures.
- Define and execute technology roadmaps that reduce technical debt and improve operational resilience.
- Establish end-to-end observability across infrastructure and applications using metrics, logs, and traces.
- Enable proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response to minimize service disruption.
- Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to embed reliability and observability into system design.
- Support capacity planning, performance optimization, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Ensure platforms meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Drive automation, standardization, continuous improvement, and deployment strategies.
- Provide technical design guidance, senior-level escalation support, documentation, governance, and mentorship to platform teams.
- Engage external vendors on methodologies, architecture, design proposals, and complex technical problems.
- Maintain and improve private cloud platform configurations to meet customer requirements.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
- Strong background in server virtualization planning and design, primarily VMware.
- Experience modernizing legacy environments and implementing target-state architectures.
- Strong enterprise-level understanding of networking, automation, orchestration, Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, and storage technologies.
- Knowledge of monitoring, telemetry, and observability practices.
- Strong virtualization automation experience.
- Ability to translate business and operational needs into technical solutions.
- Experience working across engineering, operations, and governance stakeholders.
- Strong documentation, communication, interpersonal, leadership, analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to guide and govern project teams while supporting multiple projects and deadlines.
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; onsite days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a third team- or employee-specific day.
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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.