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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) · 13 hours ago

Associate Director Vault Engineering (Secrets Management)

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets, seeking an Associate Director for Vault Engineering. This role involves leading the strategy and operations of enterprise secret management across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, while building and mentoring a high-performing team to ensure platform availability and compliance.

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Responsibilities

Own platform strategy and roadmap for enterprise secrets management (Vault or equivalent), including multi‑region architecture, HA/DR, performance replication, and lifecycle management
Establish SLOs/SLA for availability, latency, and reliability; implement observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost controls for the service
Integrate secrets into SDLC and CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins/Actions) and IaC (Terraform), standardizing policy‑as‑code, access controls, and automated secret/cert rotation across apps and pipelines
Partner with Security Architecture, Cloud Platform, and DevOps to enforce IAM protocols, zero‑trust patterns, and strong RBAC aligned to regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, PCI, NIST)
Lead major incidents impacting the platform; drive root‑cause analyses, corrective actions, and post‑mortems; report resilience and risk metrics in service reviews
Governance & audit readiness: define controls, evidence collection, and runbooks; ensure compliance with data protection, key management, and retention policies
Team leadership & talent development: hire, onboard, mentor, and set performance goals; foster a culture of engineering excellence, reliability, and customer centricity
Stakeholder management & communication: communicate roadmaps, changes, and service health to senior partners; manage vendor relationships and licensing/renewals
Continuous improvement: evaluate new capabilities (e.g., namespaces, HSM, transit encryption, dynamic secrets) and lead platform upgrades with minimal business disruption

Qualification

Vault platformCI/CDIaC (Terraform)AWSKubernetesPythonGroovyJavaIncident managementHashiCorp Vault certificationCloud certificationCISSPPKIHSM integrationRisk/control frameworks

Required

Minimum of 8 years of related experience
Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
8+ years in infrastructure/platform/security engineering; 3+ years leading engineers or SREs in production environments
Proven ownership of Vault (or comparable secret management platform) at enterprise scale across on-prem and cloud
Strong experience with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), and automation using Python, Groovy, or Java
Deep knowledge of AWS and familiarity with Azure/GCP; Kubernetes operations and secure workload patterns
Demonstrated experience in regulated industries (finance preferred): controls definition, audit evidence, and compliance alignment
Incident management leadership; ability to run major incidents and drive post-incident improvements

Preferred

Certifications: HashiCorp Vault, Cloud (AWS/Google/Azure) Certification, CKA/CKAD, CISSP (or equivalent)
PKI, encryption, certificate lifecycle (ACME/CA), HSM integration, and key management practices
Familiarity with enterprise risk/control frameworks

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.

Company

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

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With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry.

H1B Sponsorship

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Frank La Salla
President, CEO and Director of DTCC
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Edward Cortes
Executive Director
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