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Principal Systems Engineer

DTCC

Job Description

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 Principal Architect - Systems Engineer (Linux OS Operations, Private Cloud) is a critical role responsible for the stability, security, and long-term evolution of the enterprise Linux private cloud platform. This role serves as the technical authority for Linux operating system architecture, ensuring highly available, resilient, and compliant platforms that support mission-critical business applications. By driving architectural standards, modernization initiatives, and operational best practices, the role directly reduces infrastructure risk, improves platform reliability, and enables predictable, high-quality service delivery in a regulated enterprise environment.

In addition, this role shapes the future of Linux operations through automation, standardization, and cross-functional technical leadership. The Principal Architect influences how Linux platforms are designed, built, secured, and operated-leading efforts in OS lifecycle management, security hardening, capacity planning, and disaster recovery readiness. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and engineering teams, the role translates business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions while mentoring senior engineers and establishing reference architectures that drive operational efficiency, cost optimization, and continuous improvement across the private cloud ecosystem.

Your Primary Responsibilities:
  • Provide advanced Level 2 / Level 3 production support for Linux server environments across the enterprise.
  • Manage patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management of Windows and Linux platforms in alignment with security, compliance, and enterprise standards.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve OS-level, hardware, and platform issues, including CPU, memory, disk, network, storage, and kernel/system services.
  • Lead or contribute to automation and scripting initiatives using Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar tools to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
  • Ensure availability, performance, resilience, and recoverability of production environments through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
  • Act as a key responder for Critical and Major production incidents, driving end-to-end restoration, root cause analysis, remediation, and post-incident reviews.
  • Support application deployments and collaborate closely with application, database, middleware, storage, network, and security teams.
  • Develop and deliver operational metrics, dashboards, and KPIs across infrastructure platforms, providing actionable insights to leadership.
  • Drive platform standardization, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives across distributed environments.
  • Serve as a technical escalation point and mentor for engineers across Linux and platform operations teams.
Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 8+ years of related experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Talents Needed for Success:
  • Strong hands-on experience administering enterprise-scale Linux (RHEL or equivalent) environments.
  • Solid expertise in OS system administration (systemd, networking, filesystems, permissions).
  • Proven experience supporting mission-critical, high-availability platforms in regulated environments.
  • Strong knowledge of ITIL processes, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and resolve Critical and Major production incidents across multi-platform environments.
  • Proficiency in Ansible automation and scripting using PowerShell and Linux scripting (Bash/Python).
  • Strong understanding of virtualization technologies (VMware ESXi or equivalent) and virtual infrastructure operations.
  • Experience supporting cloud and hybrid environments, preferably AWS, including Windows and Linux workloads.
  • Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to operate effectively under pressure.

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.
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