Jobs · Engineering · Texas

Senior DevOps Engineer (Trading & Supply, Commodity Trading & Capital Markets) - Only W2

Saransh Inc · Houston, TX · 3 wk ago
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What We Need from You

  • Understanding of all major global futures exchanges
  • Minimum of 8 years' experience in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets / Investment Banks
  • Knowledge of full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle
  • Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms
  • Experience with Realtime Market Data distribution platforms, individual Feedhandlers, and Enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds
  • Experience with timeseries analytic frameworks such as kdb, shakti, or similar technologies

Role Overview

As DevOps Engineer, you will be a hands-on Engineer and a member of a small high performing team responsible for global derivatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven both by product teams but also engineering team backlogs of improvements and tech debt.

  • 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

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 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

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