Lead Systems Engineer

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:

Being a member of the Systems Engineering team you are responsible for the entire technical effort to evolve and verify solutions that satisfy client needs. The main focus is centered on reducing risk and improving the efficiency, performance, stability, security, and quality of all systems and platforms. The Platform Hosting & Engineering role specializes in the development, implementation, and support of all distributed, mainframe, and network hosting services across the firm. Responsible for the installation, configuration, programming, and support of operating systems, complex networks, and distributed environments, deploying solutions to increase overall system reliability across the firm.

Your Primary 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.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 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.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. 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.