Associate Director Cloud Development Engineering

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:

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with a proven track record designing, deploying, and supporting Microsoft Azure environments in large enterprise settings. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong communication skills, deep technical expertise, and the ability to work both collaboratively and as a directly responsible individual (DRI). This role is responsible for architecting, migrating, developing, and implementing scalable, resilient cloud solutions across the Azure platform.

This is a highly technical, infrastructure-focused position accountable for multiple facets of cloud implementation and platform reliability.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, build, and administer enterprise Microsoft Azure cloud environments, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, governance, and security
• Architect and implement highly available, resilient, multi-region Azure solutions aligned with best practices
• Migrate on-premises infrastructure services to modern, cloud-based Azure platforms
• Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and governance frameworks and drive continuous improvement
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible
• Build and deploy Azure resources using automation pipelines and CI/CD tooling
  • Partner with technology risk, cyber security, and IT architecture stakeholders to implement DLP, security, identity and access controls across Azure environments.
• Support application teams in adopting, transforming, and modernizing workloads on Azure
• Ensure infrastructure meets DTCC required performance, availability, reliability, and capacity standards
  • Collaborate with Cloud Networking Engineering to design and implement Azure networking solutions, not limited to hybrid connectivity, DNS, cloud transport, and cloud proxy/firewalls
• Secure, manage, and monitor Azure environments using Azure-native tools
• Administer VDI workloads hosted Windows in cloud environments
  • Linux management is out of scope
  • General windows management is out of scope, only the VDI workloads hosted is applicable.
• Utilize scripting and automation tools such as Power Shell, Python, Bash, Perl, and Azure CLI
• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops or equivalent platforms
• Use Git for source control and version management

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 5+ years of experience designing and deploying enterprise-scale Microsoft Azure cloud solutions
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure services, including Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Express Route, Azure Storage, Azure App Services, Azure SQL/MySQL, Azure Automation,…