System Engineer

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 are 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.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

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 Enterprise Scheduling Engineering organization is responsible for the end-to-end management of the Batch Scheduling environment. Our primary objective is to deliver flexible, scalable scheduling capabilities through self-service and automation, while consistently enforcing established best practices to reduce risk and accelerate enterprise-wide automation.

The Lead Systems Engineer is responsible for the administration and operational support of Distributed Scheduling across Linux and cloud-based platforms. This role partners closely with infrastructure-as-code–driven automation initiatives to design, develop, and deliver new automation capabilities, as well as to enhance and evolve existing solutions.
 

Your Primary Responsibilities:
 

• Work with project managers for meeting all deadlines outlined within the project plan 
• Coordinate and support Automation deployments
• Support the management of risks, issues, and dependencies across scheduling environments
• Follow all change management procedures
• Install, Upgrade or Patch Scheduling Products
• Collaborate with operations team on newly developed automation
• Identify ideas to improve system performance and impact availability
• Create and publish system documentation for enabling IT to use automated scheduling solutions
• Conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing code and/or perform unit testing (IDE Tools: AWS Q)
• Partner with experienced team members to develop new automation
• Support outages in the scheduling space
• Work with vendor for health check ups, cases, solutions, etc.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Strong Linux Administration (Minimum 4 years’ experience)
• Proficient Automation Skills (Minimum 4 years’ experience)
  • Shell scripting
  • Python scripting
• Independently install, upgrade, customize and integrate all components of Autosys
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in Distributed Scheduling (Autosys and Airflow)
• Containerized Platform Knowledge (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Software Configuration Management
• Version Control Knowledge (Bitbucket)
• Cloud Knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP, IAM, Ingress/Egress Policies)
• Automation Tool Knowledge (CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, Chef)

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.