Principal Resiliency Engineer

DTCC • Coppell, TX

1h • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

We are seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer to join our Reliability Architecture team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of enterprise observability. This hands-on engineering role is designed for a candidate who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and is eager to influence architectural standards across the organization.

You will engineer prototype workloads that simulate real-world business applications, demonstrating how proposed resiliency and observability strategies and standards can be embedded into modern, cloud-native environments. Your work will directly support enterprise-wide adoption of our observability mandate and contribute to platform modernization and resiliency goals.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years in distributed application design and implementation
• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years in enterprise Java technologies and open standards
• 5+ years in infrastructure, networking, middleware, and database architecture
• 5+ years in highly available architecture and disaster recovery
• 3+ years in containers and cloud-based solution delivery
• Strong troubleshooting and performance analysis skills
• Java, Python, Bash, SQL
• CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks (e.g., Jenkins, Selenium)
• OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics generation, logging
• Chaos engineering tools (e.g., Gremlin, AWS FIS)
• AWS and Azure cloud environments
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration, hybrid deployments

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy prototype applications that showcase observability capabilities across hybrid environments (on-premises, AWS, Azure, SaaS).
• Conduct rigorous testing with simulated disruptions, environmental failures, and performance scenarios to validate proposed observability standards.
• Collaborate with platform teams, application owners, and external vendors to integrate observability into real workloads.
• Produce runbooks, configuration guides, architectural patterns, reusable dashboards, and findings to support enterprise enablement and scale.
• Provide feedback and technical insight to IT Architecture leadership and teams to influence enterprise strategy.
• Conduct technical evaluations of proposed standards for observability visualization, distributed tracing, enterprise logging, metrics operations, open standards adoption, event correlation, and alerting notification.
• Host sprint retrospectives and demos for engineering, business, and executive stakeholders to validate and promote adoption.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal