Lead Platform Engineer

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).

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Cloud Network Engineer will join a high performing Cloud Network Engineering team responsible for designing, deploying, and operating large scale, multi account AWS and Azure network environments. This role supports mission critical workloads, hybrid connectivity, global DNS services, and security aligned network patterns that serve both internal customers and enterprise applications. The ideal candidate is hands-on, architecture-minded, and comfortable working in complex distributed environments with thousands of network devices.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Cloud Networking Deployment

• Implement scalable AWS and Azure network patterns including VPC and VNet architectures, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, NAT gateways, IGWs, and multi account network segmentation.

• Build and maintain DNS architectures including Route 53 Resolver, Resolver endpoints, profiles, and integration with enterprise DNS such as InfoBlox and F5 DNS for GSLB.

• Deploy and support NLB based architectures for DNS appliances, load balancers, and hybrid applications.

• Implement network security controls using cloud native and third-party platforms such as Palo Alto Cloud NGFW, Guardicore segmentation, WAFs, and PrivateLink.

Hybrid Connectivity and Infrastructure Integration

• Engineer connectivity solutions between premises data centers and cloud using Direct Connect, VPN, SD WAN, and partner connectivity.

• Support IPAM workflows and CIDR allocation strategies across large multi-region environments.

• Troubleshoot routing, BGP, path selection, firewalls, and connectivity issues across hybrid estates.

Tools, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code

• Develop Terraform modules for repeatable network patterns including TGW attachments, Route 53 rules, Resolver endpoints, VPC builds, and account onboarding.

• Build automation workflows using CI/CD pipelines, Git, Bitbucket, and policy guardrails to ensure version-controlled network deployments.

• Participate in building a Cloud Network Engineering Center of Excellence focused on governance, documentation, reference architectures, and pattern reuse.

• Familiarity with NetBrain , SolarWinds and NetScout.

Operations and Support

• Provide Day 2 operational expertise for DNS appliances, cloud firewalls, GSLB, network proxies, monitoring, and hybrid connectivity.

• Act as escalation for enterprise networking teams managing over five thousand network devices across routers, switches, load balancers, monitoring systems, and cloud endpoints.

• Review risk assessments, change requests, and network designs for compliance and reliability.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Five or more years in network engineering with strong experience in AWS or Azure networking.

• Expertise with routing and switching protocols including BGP.

• Experience with VPC design, subnetting, network segmentation, NACLs, and security groups.

• Practical experience with Terraform for infrastructure deployment.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across hybrid environments.

• Familiarity with DNS concepts including recursion, forwarding, authoritative zones, and GSLB.

• AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty or equivalent.

• Experience with InfoBlox, F5 GTM DNS, Palo Alto Cloud NGFW, and Guardicore segmentation.

• Experience operating large scale environments with centralized IPAM and routing patterns.

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for network automation.

• Strong documentation and communication skills for working with architecture and risk stakeholders.

• Systems thinking and pattern-oriented mindset.

• Comfortable driving clarity in ambiguous multi team environments.

• Customer obsessed approach to reliability and service ownership.

• Strong sense of operational excellence and continuous improvement.

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.