Senior DevOps Engineer – Trading & Supply

Join the ECI Groups Professional Technical Services Network as ancontract Sr DevOps Engineer Trading & Supply.This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 6-month duration with a estimated start on July 3 2026. Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify 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 derivatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven both by product teams but also engineering team backlogs of improvements and tech debt. Your work will include:

• Ensure proactive management of critical endto-end workflows continuously improving stability and resilience through close collaborationwith 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

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

• 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 externalization of mindset and approach and ensure we are cost: value competitive
• Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg Refinitiv etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
• Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms individual Feedhandlers and Enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds
• Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of timeseries analytic frameworks include kdb shakti or similar technologies

• 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