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Position: Senior DevOps Engineer - Trading & Supply
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Location: Houston, Texas 77002
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What We Need From You
Required Industry Knowledge:
• Understanding of all major global futures exchanges
• Knowledge of the full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle
• 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
• 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 time series analytic framework, including KDB, Shakti, or similar technologie
Role Overview
As a 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. Your work will be driven by product teams, but also the engineering team's backlogs of improvements and tech debt. Work includes
• 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 of development engineer
Key Skills and Experience required
• 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, L, 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 T andP, multicast, would be highly regarded.
• 8 years+ operational experience in supporting market data distribution platforms, such as Real Time Distribution Systems (RTDS) , knowledge of 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
Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication skills to interact with traders, developers, and stakeholders.
• Thrives in high-pressure situations while working alongside traders, developers,s 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