DevOps Engineer

**Duration:** 5\-6 months (potential for extension) **Location:** Houston TX 77002 (Fully On\-site) **Schedule:** M\-F; 40 hour work week **Role Overview** As a Senior 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. **Work includes** • 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 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 **What We Need From You:** • 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]