Job Summary:
Marex is a global financial services platform providing essential liquidity and market access to clients in various markets. The Platform Engineer will help create a platform for rapid software development and deployment, working closely with development and operations teams to improve collaboration through automation and tooling.
Responsibilities:
• Build and operate a platform used by development and operations teams to provision their infrastructure and run their applications in the cloud and on premise.
• Perform weekend work as necessary to carry out maintenance, participate in on-call duties, and respond to support escalations to ensure the operational health of the platform.
• Support any teams using the platform as required.
• Deliver continuous integration and development platform that integrates seamlessly with the development tools already in use and ensure its effectiveness to deliver software rapidly.
• Improve the developer experience, facilitate developers in building cloud infrastructure, and deploying their applications free of impediments.
• Develop policies, standards, and guidelines for IAC and CI/CD that teams can follow.
• Propose and implement workflow and toolchain improvements to automate repetitive tasks.
• Ensure security and governance are considered a priority by applying security practices as a part of the SDLC and developing and enforcing policies.
• Collaborate with teams on architectural design and cloud best practices.
• DevOps advocate to educate and promote DevOps practices across technology.
• Stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling.
• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct.
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.
• To escalate risk events immediately.
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field desired
• At least minimum five (5) years of experience in Financial Services industry. Ideally would like ten (10 years of experience)
• Experience working closely with development and operations teams throughout the SDLC, implemented CI/CD effectively and deployed into Cloud environments with IAC
• Experience in deploying and running applications securely in AWS or Azure, familiarity with cloud native tooling and cloud security best practices
• Experience building and operating containerized workload and used serverless technology
• Proficiency in scripting with programming languages Python or PowerShell
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible
• Experience monitoring in the cloud using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana
• Broad technical knowledge with a background in Linux Engineering or Development/Automation
• Experience with fast-moving Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Company:
Marex is a financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access, and infrastructure for the marine sector. Founded in 1992, the company is headquartered in Miami, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.