Senior DevOps Engineer (Trading & Supply, Commodity Trading & Capital Markets) - Only W2
Saransh Inc · Houston, TX · 3 wk ago
On-siteEngineeringContract
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