Senior Principal Infrastructure Architect

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 on this role

The Senior AWS and Terraform Engineer will design, build, and automate enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure capabilities across AWS using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices. This role will be central to enabling standardized, secure, and repeatable environment provisioning for application and platform teams.

The individual will help mature cloud platform engineering by creating reusable Terraform modules, delivery patterns, and automation workflows that accelerate provisioning while aligning with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.

Primary Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code patterns for AWS services.

Build standardized AWS infrastructure blueprints for common workload archetypes, including compute, networking, security, storage, messaging, and observability components.

Implement secure and scalable AWS environments using services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager, and related platform services.

Integrate Terraform automation with CI/CD pipelines, source control, policy-as-code, security scanning, and enterprise change management workflows.

Enable self-service infrastructure provisioning through reusable modules, templates, APIs, and platform automation workflows.

Develop and maintain Terraform state management, module versioning, release practices, and environment promotion standards.

Implement cloud security guardrails including IAM least privilege, encryption, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and compliance controls.

Collaborate with platform, cloud, application, security, and operations teams to align solutions with architecture standards and enterprise technology governance.

Troubleshoot complex AWS and Terraform deployment issues across development, test, and production environments.

Establish best practices for infrastructure as code, cloud provisioning, tagging, cost optimization, resiliency, and operational readiness.

Qualifications

Minimum of 10 years of related experience

Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success

7+ years of cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technology delivery experience.

Candidate should have 7+ years of experience in a related cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering role.

Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing AWS infrastructure in enterprise environments.

Advanced Terraform experience, including reusable module development, remote state management, workspaces, providers, variables, outputs, and module versioning.

Experience integrating Terraform with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitOps, GitLab CI, or similar pipeline technologies.

Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, security services, compute platforms, managed databases, storage, monitoring, and resiliency patterns.

Experience with Git-based workflows, code review practices, automated testing, and infrastructure release management.

Experience implementing security, compliance, and governance controls using infrastructure as code and policy-as-code practices.

Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.

Solid understanding of cloud operating models, landing zone concepts, account structures, environment provisioning, and reusable infrastructure blueprints.

Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift on AWS, including OCP integration patterns.

Experience with Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise, Atlantis, Terragrunt, Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, Checkov, tfsec, or comparable IaC governance tools.

AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS Security Specialty are preferred.

Familiarity with platform engineering operating models, self-service provisioning, golden paths, and developer experience enablement.

Experience in large-scale enterprise environments with complex governance, security, resiliency, and integration requirements.

Financial services experience is preferred but not required.

Candidate should have 7+ years of experience in a related cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering role.

Degree in a related field is desirable but not required.

Demonstrated ability to deliver production-ready AWS infrastructure capabilities in partnership with architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams.

Hands-on background across AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud security, observability, and operational automation.

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

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.