Job Summary:
ECI Group is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for their Professional Technical Services Network, focusing on Trading & Supply. In this role, you will manage critical end-to-end workflows and support global derivatives trading production environments, ensuring stability and resilience through collaboration with various 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 an 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:
• You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
Preferred:
• Experience of Algo regulation, audit and compliance & RTS6) is highly desirable
• 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
• 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
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.