Principal Platform 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're 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:

Principal Platform Engineer in Network Observability will be responsible for analyzing the DTCC Network Infrastructure and Architecture. This role will partner with the Network Observability Engineering team to ensure that ensure monitoring and instrumentation are properly configured in all critical locations of the Network. The role will work closely with DTCC Network Operations teams to understand troubleshooting challenges and translate the challenges into action plans using Topology analysis and visualization using a suite of tools at DTCC

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Data collection: Gather information from network devices like routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and endpoints. This data includes network traffic, log files, and device statistics.
• Data analysis: Use advanced analytics to process and analyze the data to identify patterns, anomalies, and trends.
• Documentation: Create documentation, schematics, templates and presentations for operational use, management and stakeholders.
• Troubleshooting: Use the data to identify root causes of issues and troubleshoot complex connectivity issues.
• Visualization: Create custom dashboards and visual representations to gain insights from the data.
• Collaboration: with Engineering and Operations teams to ensure end to end support for design, implementation, and operations. Solutions should support end to end success.
• Enhancing User Experiences: Observability engineers identify areas for improvement in user experiences by analyzing telemetry data, optimizing performance, and reducing bottlenecks.

Leadership Competencies for this level include

• Feedback: Seeks feedback from others, provides feedback to others in support of their development, and is open and honest while dealing constructively with criticism.
• Delegating: Effectively manages tasks and people, taking a practical approach to determine the most effective method of execution while respecting others expertise and considering others feelings and working styles.
• Inclusive Leadership: Values individuals and embraces diversity by integrating differences and promoting diversity and inclusion across teams and functions.
• Coaching: Understands and anticipates people's needs, skills, and abilities, in order to coach, motivate and empower them for success.
• Ability to help solve sophisticated challenges using modern Network Monitoring, Observability, alerting, reporting, dashboarding technologies

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of demonstrable experience in a senior networking role in a large, global enterprise.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Participate in Network Engineering System Design and Implementation Projects to ensure observability principles are applied to every project. Provide insights and guidance on telemetry requirements, instrumentation strategies, and best practices to ensure observability is built into the system from the ground up.
• Partner with Observability Engineers to develop dashboards and routines to constantly provide an overview of the health of the DTCC network ensuring business readiness at all times.
• Strong understanding in technologies like: Splunk, NetBrain, OpenText tools suite, Event Management Tools, syslog, Network Analysis Tools, Gigamon Packet Directors, SNMP, and Packet Capture
• Advance knowledge of networking monitoring protocols, such as: SNMP v3, netflow, etc.
• Ability to monitor and analyze performance of Network systems using a diverse set of Network Capabilities and a variety of tools.
• Strong Network Troubleshooting skillset in a Network Campus & Data Center environment.

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.