{"id":1220180,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dtcc-infrastructure-test-engineering-associate-director","title":"Infrastructure Test Engineering Associate Director","company":{"id":1759477,"name":"Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation","domain":"dtcc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dtcc-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":35,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.8,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":48,"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dallas, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":151000,"max_usd":284000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1670},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"Bitbucket","optional":false},{"name":"Chef","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"OpenShift","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-21T14:41:58Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-21","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T20:51:33Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?\nDo 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.\nThe 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.\nPay and Benefits:\nCompetitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive\nComprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location\nPension / Retirement benefits\nPaid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.\nDTCC 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).\nThe Impact you will have in this role:\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Infrastructure Test Engineering Associate Director to lead enterprise infrastructure validation, quality engineering, and non-functional testing initiatives across complex technology environments. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness of infrastructure platforms supporting critical business services.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep expertise in one or more infrastructure domains such as virtualization, networking, operating systems, cloud, storage, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or observability, with broad knowledge across the infrastructure ecosystem. This individual will work closely with engineering team, architecture, SRE, tools/platforms, operations, cybersecurity, and application teams to define test strategies, assess change impacts, identify dependency risks, and validate production readiness through automated and data-driven testing approaches.\nYour Primary Responsibilities:\nLead infrastructure test engineering strategy, planning, estimation, execution, reporting, and stakeholder sign-off for enterprise infrastructure services and components. \nDefine risk-based test coverage for infrastructure configurations, standards, security controls, access permissions, operational baselines, performance, resiliency, observability, and infrastructure FMEA scenarios.\nAssess application-to-infrastructure dependencies and change blast radius to determine affected systems, test scope, sequencing, and regression requirements.\nProvide technical leadership in at least one core specialization while guiding integrated testing across Linux, Windows, networking, storage, virtualization, cloud, and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.\nInfrastructure test strategy, readiness validation, NFR testing, dependency mapping, blast-radius assessment, defect management, and evidence-based sign-off.\nDesign and oversee functional and non-functional infrastructure testing, including performance, scalability, failover, recovery, high availability, chaos/resiliency, capacity, and observability validation.\nDevelop reusable test approaches and automation using Ansible / Chef Inspec and one or more scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Shell.\nIntegrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines and source-control workflows using tools such as Jenkins, Git, or Bitbucket.\nPartner with platform engineering, SRE, architecture, operations, application, cybersecurity, and change teams to resolve risks and improve production readiness.\nUse logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts to validate service health, diagnose failures, and support root-cause analysis.\nDrive defect triage, evidence management, quality metrics, executive reporting, continuous improvement, and adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.\nMentor engineers, review technical deliverables, establish engineering standards, and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.\nSupport governance, audit, compliance, and operational reviews through clear, reliable, and traceable test evidence.\n\nQualifications:\nMinimum of 8 years of related experience\nBachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.\nTalents Needed for Success:\nHands-on depth in at least one primary specialization in the Virtualization/Storage/Kubernetes/Network/OS/Systems Architecture/Non Functional testing/SRE/Observability, supported by working knowledge across multiple enterprise infrastructure domains. \nCloud knowledge in AWS, Azure, or GCP and practical understanding of hybrid infrastructure. \nLeadership experience mentoring engineers and working across architecture, engineering, operations, SRE, cybersecurity, application, and change-management teams.\nDemonstrated experience leading complex infrastructure validation, change-impact assessment, defect resolution, and production-readiness decisions. \nStrong communication skills with the ability to present technical risks, quality status, and recommendations to engineering and leadership audiences.\nSystems thinking and the ability to connect applications, infrastructure components, dependencies, failure modes, and business impact. \nStrong troubleshooting skills across distributed, hybrid-cloud, and containerized environments. \nPractical knowledge of infrastructure-as-code, automation, CI/CD, source control, monitoring, and test evidence management. \nLeadership mindset with a focus on engineering quality, risk reduction, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. \nAbility to balance deep technical investigation with clear prioritization and concise executive communication.\nThe 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. 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