Lead Machine Identity 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.

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:

Cybersecurity (IAM) Engineering and Operations provides outstanding and versatile security services to the enterprise. The Secrets Team is passionate about automating, migrating, and enhancing machine-to-machine secrets management for the enterprise to build a more secure platform for the enterprise and its customers. This position is a domain expert (SME) for IAM/Secrets Management and is responsible for analyzing complex issues to centralize, automate, and manage enterprise secrets while simultaneously exploring technological advancements and new functionalities that fall within the zero trust methodologies.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and sustain an innovative HashiCorp Vault platform that prioritizes reliability and scalability
• Spearhead daily operations, maintenance, and monitoring of the Vault environment while demonstrating Agile frameworks
• Assist in mentoring junior engineers in Agile standard processes, elevating team proficiency and cohesiveness
• Be proficient in authoring and handling Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, automating deployment pipelines to minimize manual interactions
• Embrace or adapt to a platform-centric approach, emphasizing reusable and scalable solutions
• Collaborate seamlessly across teams to engineer a system with a platform-first approach, as opposed to a tool-centric one
• Continually advance your expertise in Vault and cybersecurity standard methodologies to adapt to a constantly evolving thread landscape
• Actively participate in the development, deployment, maintenance, and periodic testing of disaster recovery plans and ensuring rapid response in critical situations

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

Qualifications:

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

Talents Needed for Success:

• Understanding of Zero Trust Architecture
• Expertise in Dev-Ops, CI/CD, and full lifecycle management
• Proven leadership capabilities, including the ability to understand nuanced requirements and guide junior engineers toward effective solutions
• Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault or other Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools
• Understanding of observability and monitoring tools
• Familiarity with enterprise Identity Access Management. Good background in addressing security and regulatory requirements
• Versatile experience with working in a cloud, on-premises, and/or hybrid environment
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix and a solid understanding of shell scripting
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, strong analytical skills, and a willingness to think creatively
• Kanban is highly desirable, but any Agile experience is acceptable

Nice to have:

• Terraform experience is preferred but any IaC experience is a plus
• Hands-on experience working with Splunk, Grafana, and/or Elasticsearch
• Experience working in a Network Operations Center (NOC) or a similar support capacity
• AWS or other equivalent certifications
• Familiarity with modern networking technologies
• Analytical, strategic, problem-solving ability
• Works well as part of team. Self-motivated, tenacious learner
• Curious and agile approach
• Self-starter and highly motivated individual
• Able to support multiple projects in a fast-paced work environment
• Able to provide adequate guidance & governance to project teams during component integration
• Excellent organizational, communication and leadership skills

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!

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.

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

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

Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering transforms the way we deliver infrastructure to our business clients. A key construct of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with the Engineering organization, the Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, the DevSecOps organization as well as our operational support teams to ensure that this organization provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.