Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (Trading & Supply, Commodity Trading & Capital Markets)
Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid - 3 Days a week onsite)
Job Type: W2 Contract
Summary:
Client is looking for strong DevOps experience, preferably within Trading, Supply Chain, Energy, Commodities, or related domains.
Description:
What We Need from You:
Required Industry Knowledge:
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Understanding of all major global futures exchanges
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Knowledge of full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle
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Minimum of 8 years' experience in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets / Investment Banks to bring credible externalisation of mindset and approach and ensure we are cost: value competitive
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Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
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[Mininum of 8 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms, individual Feedhandlers and Enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds]
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[Mininum of 8 years of knowledge of timeseries analytic frameworks include kdb, shakti or similar technologies]
Role Overview:
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As DevOps Engineer , you will be a hands-on Engineer and be a member of a small high performing, team responsible for global derviatives trading production environments.
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Your work will be driven both by product teams but also engineering team backlogs of improvements and tech debt.
Work includes:
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Ensure proactive management of critical end-to-end workflows, continuously improving stability and resilience through close collaboration with delivery and infrastructure teams
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Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution across development, support, and technical business users.
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Serve as an subject matter expert for trading systems initiatives.
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Hands-on experience in supporting scalable algorithmic trading technology in a compliant and flexible way.
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Experience of Algo regulation, audit and compliance & RTS6) is highly desirable
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Being part of the on-call rota working as part of a global team development engineers.
Key Skills and Experience required:
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Solid track record in application deployment best practices
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10 years+ experience with Front Office application support and vendor management
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Rapid incident response to maintain continuous trading operations, turning quick fixes into robust, scalable solutions
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Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting, owning reliability improvements and ensuring their successful delivery
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Understanding of trading lifecycle, including order capture & execution, allocation workflow, settlement, and compliance requirements
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Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and propose innovative solutions.
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Must have strong technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages
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8 years+ solid relevant FIX Engineering experience
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Proven experience with exchange and vendor certification
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Knowledge of Third Party Networks and EMS/OMS software vendors. (e.g., TT, NYFIX, Bloomberg, TradingScreen)
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Experience in messaging systems, and experience debugging network protocols such as TCP, multicast, would be highly regarded.
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[8 years+ operational experience in supporting market data distribution platforms such as, Real Time Distribution Systems (RTDS) knowledge for DACS, ADH & ADS components]
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[Knowledge of Multicast data traffic management, arbitration and message queueing]
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[5 years+ operational experience in supporting time series frameworks such as kdb, shakti]