Associate Director Cloud Development Engineering

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Pay and 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.

• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Job Title: Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with a proven track record designing, deploying, and supporting Microsoft Azure environments in large enterprise settings. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong communication skills, deep technical expertise, and the ability to work both collaboratively and as a directly responsible individual (DRI). This role is responsible for architecting, migrating, developing, and implementing scalable, resilient cloud solutions across the Azure platform.

This is a highly technical, infrastructure-focused position accountable for multiple facets of cloud implementation and platform reliability.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage and administer Microsoft Azure cloud environments, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, governance, and security.

• Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region Azure architectures region Azure architectures.-region Azure architectures.

• Analyze current operational standards, processes, and governance frameworks to identify and implement improvements.

• Migrate on-premises infrastructure services to modern cloud-based solutions.

• Manage and enforce security and access controls across cloud environments.

• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using native and third-party tools such as Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible.-party tooling such as Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible.

• Implement data protection best practices and policy-driven security controls to prevent data loss and ensure compliance driven security controls to prevent data loss and ensure compliance.

• Support application teams adopting, transforming, or modernizing workloads into Azure.

• Ensure all infrastructure components meet required performance, reliability, and capacity standards.

• Apply deep technical expertise in infrastructure design, build, and deployment across private/public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualization, and identity.

• Implement enterprise-grade Azure networking solutions.

• Secure, manage, and monitor Azure environments using Azure-native tools.

• Build and deploy resilient Azure cloud architectures aligned with best practices.

• Administrate both Windows and Linux operating systems in cloud environments.

• Build and deploy Azure resources using IaC and automation pipelines.

• Use languages and tools such as Perl, Python, Azure CLI, PowerShell, and the Azure Portal for development and automation.

• Utilize configuration management and automation technologies such as PowerShell DSC, Chef, and Puppet.

• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (or equivalent) to deploy infrastructure and applications.

• Use Git to perform source code management and version control.

Job Requirements

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience with:
  • Azure Virtual Machines
  • Azure Virtual Networks
  • ExpressRoute
  • Operations Management Suite / Log Analytics
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Azure Backup
  • Azure App Services
  • Azure Storage
  • Azure SQL, MySQL
  • Azure Automation
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID.
• Proficiency with:
  • Bash scripting
  • Docker and Kubernetes for containerized workloads
  • Serverless computing and associated toolchains
• Hands-on experience with:

  • Terraform Cloud

  • Azure DevOps or equivalent CI/CD platforms

Core Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and deploying enterprise-scale Azure cloud solutions.

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

• Strong understanding of modern application architectures and cloud-native patterns.

• Experience designing resilient, fault tolerant, scalable infrastructure.-tolerant, scalable infrastructure.

• Familiarity with cloud security principles and governance models.

• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.-solving skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.

• Ability to work independently as a DRI while collaborating effectively across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, or related).

• Experience supporting large distributed systems or mission critical workloads.-critical workloads.

• Background in hybrid cloud architectures and enterprise integrations.

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at https://www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.