Senior Application Support Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Responsibilities

The role involves ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of mission-critical institutional trade processing platforms. You will lead incident response, drive automation initiatives, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system resiliency.

Requirements

Candidates should have 6–8 years of experience supporting enterprise applications in complex production environments. A bachelor’s degree is preferred, along with strong proficiency in SRE principles, cloud technologies, and distributed systems.

Skills

• Java
• J2EE
• Oracle
• SQL
• DB2
• IBM MQ
• Kafka
• Splunk
• Grafana
• AutoSys
• ServiceNow
• ITIL
• Linux
• Unix
• AWS
• Site Reliability Engineering

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Annual incentive
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Life insurance
• Well-being benefits
• Pension
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off
• Personal/Family Care leave

About this role

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

As a Senior Application Support Engineer, you will help power DTCC's global
financial markets infrastructure by ensuring the reliability, availability, and
performance of Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) platforms that support
cross-border equity and debt trade processing and settlement.

Leveraging Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, you will support a
portfolio of 40+ mission-critical applications across a modern ecosystem of AWS,
OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Kafka, IBM MQ, and distributed systems. You
will play a key role in driving operational excellence, improving resiliency,
reducing operational risk, and advancing automation across critical trade
processing platforms.

Working closely with globally distributed teams across Application Development,
Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, and Operations, you will help deliver stable,
scalable, and highly available services that support DTCC's mission-critical
business functions.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Production Reliability & Incident Management

* Ensure the availability, stability, and performance of mission-critical
applications.
* Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis (RCA)
activities.
* Drive preventative solutions that improve resiliency and reduce recurring
issues.

Operational Excellence & Resiliency

* Support application recovery, failover, disaster recovery (DR), and business
continuity activities.
* Maintain operational readiness across a portfolio of enterprise applications.
* Support critical processing schedules and service-level commitments.

Change, Release & Automation

* Support application deployments, releases, and vendor upgrades.
* Drive automation initiatives that improve efficiency and reduce operational
risk.
* Enhance monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational tooling.

Collaboration & Governance

* Partner with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud, Database, Network, Security,
and Product teams to ensure platform reliability.
* Support audit, risk, compliance, and operational control requirements.
* Build strong partnerships across globally distributed teams to drive
continuous improvement.

Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent practical experience
* 6–8 years of experience supporting enterprise applications in complex
production environments

Talents Needed for Success:

Core Technologies

* Java/J2EE 
* Oracle, SQL, DB2 
* IBM MQ, Kafka 
* Splunk, Grafana, AutoSys 
* ServiceNow and ITIL 
* Linux/Unix 
* AWS

Required Experience

* Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles,
including reliability, observability, automation, and incident prevention. 
* Experience supporting enterprise-scale, distributed applications in
production environments. 
* Experience with cloud technologies and modern infrastructure platforms. 
* Understanding of messaging systems, middleware, and integration technologies
(IBM MQ, Kafka, IIB, or similar). 
* Exposure to container platforms such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Docker. 
* Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred skills 

* Kafka and event-driven architecture experience. 
* Mainframe exposure (JCL, batch processing, job monitoring). 
* Python or other scripting languages. 
* Financial Services, Capital Markets, or Securities Processing experience. 
* AI-driven automation or operational efficiency initiatives. 
* Enterprise integration and distributed processing platforms.

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.

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
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About DTCC

Financial Services · 5,001-10,000 employees · headquartered in Jersey City, NJ · founded 1973