Senior Application Support Engineer (SRE)
Senior SRE role maintaining 40+ mission-critical financial-market apps using Kafka, IBM MQ, OCP, and cloud platforms to ensure reliability and performance for wealth management and reference data.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Tampa, FL, United States
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent practical experience
- 6–8 years of experience supporting enterprise applications in complex production environments
- 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
Nice to have
- 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.
Full 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
As a Senior Application Support Engineer, you will help power DTCC's global financial markets infrastructure by ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of platforms that support wealth management and master reference data.
Leveraging Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, you will support a portfolio of 40+ mission-critical applications across a modern ecosystem of both on prem and cloud based systems, 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.