Lead Systems Engineer

About the position

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and deploying the applications by using Chef, Ansible, Jenkins and GitLab within a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Orchestrating the flawless installation and configuration of middleware software systems for the smooth integration and operation.
• Leverage OpenShift to containerize applications, enabling easy movement across various environments and efficient scaling as needed.
• Use AWS Cloud Services to efficiently handle and support various aspects of the organization's infrastructure.
• Life cycle management of SSL certificates like request, renewal, retire, and revocation.
• Ensuring the application of necessary security patches to the servers to safeguard against potential vulnerabilities.
• Collaborating with various teams on projects, propose solutions, and address the technical issues.
• Defining performance standards for the middleware systems and continuously monitoring their performance to ensure they meet established benchmarks.
• Automate installation and configuration of middleware software.
• Write scripts/utilities for repeatable/reusable tasks and operations.
• Modify the existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.
• Supervise functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• CI/CD Tools: Atlassian Bitbucket, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift.
• Application Servers: Confluent, Apache Tomcat, Redhat JBoss Web Server, Liberty, and IBM WebSphere.
• Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Chef, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Cloud Computing Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Build and Dependency Management: Jenkins, Maven, and Gradle.
• Streaming Platform: Confluent is a plus.
• Operating Systems and Scripting: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Bash Shell script, Java Script, and Python.
• Installation, configuration and Patching/upgrade of Application servers software such as Tomcat, Apache webserver, etc.
• Good experience in SSL including One-way SSL and mutual authentication.
• Strong Solving skills.
• Monitoring: Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch.
• Software Development Methodologies: DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall.
• Certification in Redhat OpenShift Container Platform is a plus.

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.