Lead IT Security Engineer (Machine Identity & Secrets Management)

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:

Being a member of CISO team, as a Lead Engineer for Machine Identity & Secrets Management, you will own the technical vision, strategy, and execution of DTCC's enterprise secrets management and machine identity platform, powered by HashiCorp Vault.

You will play a critical role in enabling secure-by-default application development by delivering a highly automated, scalable, and resilient Vault platform running on Kubernetes. Your work will directly impact how internal engineering teams authenticate, authorize, and securely access sensitive credentials across DTCC's technology ecosystem.

This role sits at the intersection of security engineering, platform engineering, and DevOps, and is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who enjoys building internal platforms and setting engineering standards at scale.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for DTCC's Machine Identity and Secrets Management platform, with HashiCorp Vault as the core service
• Serve as the technical authority for Vault architecture, deployment patterns, and operational standard processes
• Lead the design and implementation of a Kubernetes-based Vault infrastructure, emphasizing high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery
  • Drive automation-first approaches for:
  • Vault deployment and lifecycle management
  • Secret engines, auth methods, and policy management
  • Application onboarding and self-service enablement
• Design and standardize secure authentication and authorization patterns for applications, services, and workloads (e.g., Kubernetes auth, cloud IAM integrations)
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines to manage Vault environments and configurations
• Partner closely with application teams, platform teams, and security team collaborators to enable secure consumption of secrets at scale
• Establish operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and incident response for Vault services
• Mentor and guide engineers on the team, setting a higher standard for engineering quality, security, and automation
• Contribute to internal documentation, standards, and architectural decision records

**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 and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Deep hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault, including:
• Auth methods, secret engines, policies, namespaces, and HA configurations
• Strong experience running production workloads on Kubernetes, including security and operational standard methodologies
  • Sophisticated automation and DevOps skills, including:
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred)
  • CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-style workflows
• Strong understanding of machine identity, service-to-service authentication, and zero-trust principles
• Experience integrating Vault with cloud platforms, Kubernetes workloads, and internal developer platforms
• Ability to translate security requirements into simple, scalable developer experiences
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence architecture and engineering practices across teams
• An approach of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement

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

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 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

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.