DevOps Engineer (Contract)
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Job Location:
Houston, MS - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join the ECI Groups Professional Technical Services Network as an DevOps Engineer.This is a Houston based a six-month contract role with an anticipated January 15 2006 start date and ending on July 31 2026.
NOTE: No visa sponsorships are available at this time for this position.
Role Overview
As DevOps Engineer you will be a hands-on Engineer and be a member of a small high performing team responsible for global derviatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven both by product teams but also engineering team backlogs of improvements and tech debt. Work includes -
Ensure proactive management of critical endto-end workflows continuously improving stability and resilience through close collarabituon 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.
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
Required Industry Knowledge:
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 externalisation of mindset and approach and ensure we are cost: value competitive
Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg Refinitiv etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
Mininum of 8 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms individual Feedhandlers and Enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds
Mininum of 8 years of knowledge of timeseries analytic frameworks include kdb shakti or similar technologies
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
Soft Skills:
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
NOTE: No visa sponsorships are available at this time for this position.
Role Overview
As DevOps Engineer you will be a hands-on Engineer and be a member of a small high performing team responsible for global derviatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven both by product teams but also engineering team backlogs of improvements and tech debt. Work includes -
Ensure proactive management of critical endto-end workflows continuously improving stability and resilience through close collarabituon 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.
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
Required Industry Knowledge:
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 externalisation of mindset and approach and ensure we are cost: value competitive
Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg Refinitiv etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
Mininum of 8 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms individual Feedhandlers and Enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds
Mininum of 8 years of knowledge of timeseries analytic frameworks include kdb shakti or similar technologies
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
Soft Skills:
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
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- IVR
- SOAP
- Avaya
- Solaris
- Cost Accounting Standards
- Database Design
- Hibernate
- ITIL
- Weblogic
- Express.js
- Contracts
- ASP
About Company
ECI Group is a technology led engineering services company with expertise ranging from process plant design and development to waste recycling
