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Job Summary:
ECI Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Professional Technical Services Network. This six-month contract role involves supporting global derivatives trading production environments and ensuring proactive management of critical workflows while collaborating with delivery and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities:
• Ensure proactive management of critical end—to-end workflows, continuously improving stability and resilience through close collaboration with delivery and infrastructure teams
• Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution across development, support, and technical business users
• Serve as a subject matter expert for trading systems initiatives
• Hands-on experience in supporting scalable algorithmic trading technology in a compliant and flexible way
• Being part of the on-call rota working as part of a global team development engineers
Qualifications:
Required:
• Must have strong front-office trading support experience, including 8+ years of FIX protocol, exchange connectivity, and real-time market data distribution (RTDS/DACS/ADH/ADS).
• As DevOps Engineer, you will be a hands-on Engineer and be a member of a small high performing, team responsible for global derivatives trading production environments.
• Ensure proactive management of critical end-to-end workflows, continuously improving stability and resilience through close collaboration with delivery and infrastructure teams.
• Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution across development, support, and technical business users.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for trading systems initiatives.
• Hands-on experience in supporting scalable algorithmic trading technology in a compliant and flexible way.
• Experience of Algo regulation, audit and compliance & RTS6 is highly desirable.
• Being part of the on-call rota working as part of a global team development engineers.
• Understanding of all major global futures exchanges.
• Knowledge of full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets / Investment Banks – to bring credible externalization of mindset and approach and ensure we are cost: value competitive.
• Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
• Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms, individual Feedhandlers and Enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds.
• Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of timeseries analytic frameworks include kdb, shakti or similar technologies.
• Solid track record in application deployment best practices.
• 10 years+ experience with Front Office application support and vendor management.
• Rapid incident response to maintain continuous trading operations, turning quick fixes into robust, scalable solutions.
• Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting, owning reliability improvements and ensuring their successful delivery.
• Understanding of trading lifecycle, including order capture & execution, allocation workflow, settlement, and compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and propose innovative solutions.
• Must have strong technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages.
• 8 years+ solid relevant FIX Engineering experience.
• Proven experience with exchange and vendor certification.
• Knowledge of Third Party Networks and EMS/OMS software vendors. (e.g., TT, NYFIX, Bloomberg, TradingScreen).
• Experience in messaging systems, and experience debugging network protocols such as TCP, multicast, would be highly regarded.
• 8 years+ operational experience in supporting market data distribution platforms such as, Real Time Distribution Systems (RTDS) knowledge for DACS, ADH & ADS components.
• Knowledge of Multicast data traffic management, arbitration and message queueing.
• 5 years+ operational experience in supporting time series frameworks such as kdb, shakti.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with traders, developers, and stakeholders.
• Thrives in high-pressure situations while working alongside traders, developers and other engineering teams.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and flexible with a positive attitude.
• Ability to work under demanding deadlines with changing priorities in a trading room environment.
Company:
ECI Group is a multi-disciplined consulting firm. It is a professional services division that provides plant personnel staffing. Founded in 1878, the company is headquartered in Baton Rouge, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.