Senior DevOps Engineer | Front Office Trading Systems

Job summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer maintains the stability, availability, and performance of mission-critical global derivatives trading applications in a front-office production environment. The role handles incident response, FIX exchange connectivity, vendor certification, deployment and reliability improvements, and support for trading workflows and real-time market data systems. It uses scripting and programming technologies such as Python, PowerShell, C#, and SQL, alongside EMS/OMS platforms and trading connectivity systems.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in commodity trading, capital markets, or investment banking technology.
• Extensive experience supporting front-office trading applications in production.
• Hands-on FIX protocol engineering experience, including exchange connectivity and vendor certification.
• Understanding of global futures exchanges and exchange-traded derivatives workflows.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL, or similar programming and scripting technologies.
• Experience with application deployment, monitoring, incident response, and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of EMS/OMS platforms such as Trading Technologies, NYFIX, Bloomberg, TradingScreen, or comparable systems.
• Understanding of network protocols, messaging systems, and trading application integrations.
• Ability to work with traders and technical teams in a high-pressure production environment.
• Willingness to participate in global on-call support.
• Preferred: At least 10 years of front-office application support and vendor management experience.
• Preferred: Experience with real-time market data distribution platforms, time-series analytics, multicast, or algorithmic trading systems.
• Preferred: Knowledge of algorithmic trading regulations, audit requirements, and RTS 6 compliance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the stability, availability, and performance of global derivatives trading applications.
• Respond to incidents and troubleshoot business-critical trading systems.
• Support order capture, execution, allocation, and settlement workflows.
• Resolve production issues with traders, developers, and infrastructure teams.
• Improve deployment processes, production monitoring, and system reliability.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL, or similar technologies.
• Analyze recurring incidents and implement sustainable technical solutions.
• Support application releases, engineering improvements, and technical debt reduction.
• Support FIX connectivity, exchange integrations, and vendor certification.
• Troubleshoot trading connectivity, messaging, network communication, and real-time market data systems.

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Relocation