DEV-OPS ENGINEER

Our Oil and Gas client in Houston has a DevOps contract position open - it's for their Trading & Derivatives department.
Contract Duration: 6 months
Hybrid within their Houston office.
Required Skills & Experience
Description: Required Industry Knowledge:
[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]
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.
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. 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 rotation 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
Daily Responsibilities:
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