Director DevSecOps Engineering

Dtcc - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Jersey City, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The position at DTCC focuses on leading teams responsible for the technical delivery and support of critical Resiliency services related to Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, Incident Recovery, and Operational Rotation. The role emphasizes the execution of the Resiliency Automation strategy, enabling improved overall enterprise Resiliency through innovative IT service capabilities. The candidate will work closely with Development and Infrastructure teams to deliver resiliency solutions on both traditional and Cloud platforms, utilizing Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Development and Infrastructure teams to define, program, test and deliver resiliency solutions on a combination of traditional and Cloud (AWS/Azure) Platforms using Agile methodologies.
• Engage in direct application development activities (programming: design, code, test) supporting agile teams toward the rapid adoption of services, practices and toolsets.
• Possess and maintain deep knowledge and experience of technologies and infrastructure, application development platforms, tools and techniques.
• Evaluate requirements, design, and implement automated solutions that meet the needs of our business with a focus on self-service automation.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities for existing automation enablement platforms and services and implement improvements.
• Create & Maintain Infrastructure as Code pipelines to enable Service Owners.
• Identify issues with existing automated platforms and services and implement fixes.
• Administration of our automation tools including but not limited to: user access, supervising environment health, performing application upgrades, designing infrastructure to meet capacity, performance, and availability needs, providing knowledge transfer to level one support teams, opening support cases with vendor and escalation as needed.
• Identify problems and inefficient processes to develop creative automated solutions.
• Guide new developers on their automation journey with a goal of adoption of our platforms and services to enable automation.
• Evaluate return on investment of automation opportunities to aid in prioritization.
• Establish ways to measure the value automated solutions will realize for our customers.
• Promote the benefits of automation by contributing to communications outlining the value our solutions provide to the organization.
• Lead Team performance and development.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, and/or equivalent experience.
• 5-7 years' experience minimum writing code to lead Infrastructure.
• Experience using GIT for source code management and version control and solid understanding of gitflow.
• Experience writing Chef Cookbooks or Ansible Playbooks to lead Infrastructure Configurations and Software.
• Experience coding in at least one programming language i.e. python, ruby, java.
• Understanding of the Red Hat Linux Operating System and its Key Components.
• Ability to navigate and modify files on Red Hat Linux Systems via command line.
• Foundational Knowledge of AWS Cloud and Services especially ec2.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure components.
• Good communication skills and problem-solving ability.
• Desire to learn new technologies.
• Strong leadership ability.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience coding with Groovy
• Experience coding with Terraform
• Experience coding with Angular
• Experience coding with Python
• Experience coordinating the Chef Server
• Experience coordinating Ansible Tower/Ansible Automation Platform
• Experience with Linux Shell Scripting and/or Python coding
• Experience working with AWS cloud services
• Experience using Scrum or Kanban to run tasks

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
• Flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote