Senior DevOps Engineer – Global Derivatives Trading (FIX & Market Data)(Contract)

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer Global Derivatives Trading (FIX & Market Data)

Location: On-Site Houston Texas

Employment Type: Contract

About the Role

Youll work closely with product delivery and infrastructure teams to proactively manage critical endtoend trading workflows reduce technical debt and drive measurable improvements in stability resilience and speed.

Youll be a subject matter expert across exchangetraded derivatives FIX connectivity market data distribution and timeseries analyticssupporting scalable algorithmic trading technology in a compliant flexible way. This role includes participation in a global oncall rota.

What Youll Do

• Own production reliability for global derivatives trading systems (futures & options) continuously improving stability resilience and performance.
• Proactively monitor and troubleshoot complex workflows across development support and technical business users; turn quick fixes into robust scalable solutions.
• Lead incident response to maintain continuous trading operations; drive rootcause analysis and followup engineering to prevent recurrences.
• Serve as SME for trading systems initiatives including order capture/execution allocation settlement and compliance requirements.
• Support algorithmic trading platforms within applicable regulations (e.g. EU RTS 6highly desirable) audit and compliance frameworks.
• Manage exchange/vendor certifications and integrations with EMS/OMS and thirdparty networks (e.g. TT NYFIX Bloomberg TradingScreen).
• Collaborate crossfunctionally with traders developers infrastructure and vendor teams to prioritize reliability improvements.
• Contribute to engineering backlogs addressing tech debt and implementing systematic improvements to monitoring deployment and tooling.
• Participate in a global oncall rotation ensuring timely response and clear communication during trading hours and incident events.

Required Industry Knowledge

• Deep understanding of major global futures exchanges and the full exchangetraded derivatives trade lifecycle.
• 8 years in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets / Investment Banking bringing credible external mindset and cost:value competitiveness.
• Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg Refinitiv) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
• 8 years with Realtime Market Data distribution (enterprise feeds individual feed handlers).
• 8 years with timeseries analytic frameworks (e.g. kdb shakti or similar technologies).

Key Skills & Experience

• Application deployment best practices with a solid track record in production change management for trading systems.
• 10 years in Front Office application support and vendor management.
• Rapid incident response capabilities; adept at stabilizing complex systems under time pressure and converting patches into permanent fixes.
• Proactive monitoring & troubleshooting owning reliability improvements endtoend (design rollout validation).
• Strong understanding of trading lifecycle: order capture & execution allocation workflow settlement and compliance.
• Programming & scripting: Python PowerShell C# SQL (others a plus).
• 8 years of FIX Engineering (session management certification troubleshooting performance tuning).
• Proven experience with exchange/vendor certification processes.
• Familiarity with EMS/OMS and thirdparty networks: TT NYFIX Bloomberg TradingScreen.
• Experience with messaging systems and debugging network protocols (e.g. TCP multicast).
• Market data ops: RTDS (DACS ADH ADS components) multicast data traffic management arbitration and message queuing.
• Timeseries frameworks: 5 years supporting kdb/shakti in production (schema design performance query optimization).

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication with traders developers and stakeholders; clear incident updates and postmortems.
• Thrives in highpressure environments (trading floor cadence); calm structured problemsolver.
• Proactive selfmotivated flexible and outcomeoriented with a positive collaborative attitude.
• Comfortable working to demanding deadlines and changing priorities in a trading room context.

Nice to Have

• Experience with algorithmic trading regulation audit and compliance (RTS 6 exposure).
• Familiarity with liquidity aggregation smart order routing and lowlatency optimization.
• Prior work with observability stacks (metrics logs traces) tailored for trading systems (e.g. alerting on marketcritical workflows).

Pay Range: $100hr - $125hr (Depending on experience)

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What nextSource Provides:

• Healthcare Benefits including Medical Prescription Vision & Dental Coverage United Healthcare
• Voluntary STD & LTD New York Life
• 401(k) Retirement Planning Fidelity
• Discount Program

*You are Eligible to participate in the benefits program if you are considered a full-time employee of nextSource working at least 30 hours per week on a consistent coverage will be effective on the 1st of the month following 60 days of employment.