Senior DevOps Engineer – Trading & Supply
Engineers and Constructors International Inc.2 months ago
Houston, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Manage critical end-to-end trading workflows and improve production stability and resilience.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across development, support, and technical business users.
- Support scalable algorithmic trading technology and serve as a subject matter expert for trading-system initiatives.
- Apply application deployment best practices and manage front-office application support and vendor relationships.
- Respond rapidly to incidents and convert quick fixes into robust, scalable solutions.
- Monitor systems proactively, troubleshoot issues, and own reliability improvements through delivery.
- Support the trading lifecycle, including order capture, execution, allocation, settlement, and compliance.
- Participate in a global on-call rotation.
- Support market-data distribution platforms, feed handlers, consolidated feeds, messaging systems, and time-series frameworks.
- Work with exchange and vendor certification, third-party networks, EMS/OMS vendors, and network protocols.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of front-office application support and vendor-management experience.
- At least 8 years of relevant FIX Engineering experience.
- At least 8 years of experience in commodity trading, capital markets, or investment banking.
- Strong scripting and programming skills in Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL, or other programming languages.
- Experience with scalable algorithmic trading technology, application deployment, monitoring, incident response, and reliability engineering.
- Understanding of algorithmic trading regulation, audit and compliance requirements, and RTS6 is highly desirable.
- Experience with exchange and vendor certification and knowledge of third-party networks and EMS/OMS vendors such as TT, NYFIX, Bloomberg, and TradingScreen.
- Experience with messaging systems and debugging network protocols such as TCP and multicast is highly regarded.
- At least 8 years of operational experience supporting real-time market-data distribution platforms, including RTDS, DACS, ADH, and ADS.
- Knowledge of multicast traffic management, arbitration, message queueing, and real-time consolidated feeds.
- At least 5 years of operational experience supporting time-series frameworks such as kdb and shakti, or similar technologies.
- Knowledge of major global futures exchanges, exchange-traded derivatives lifecycles, market-data providers, and liquidity aggregation platforms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and prioritization skills in high-pressure trading-room environments.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent U.S. resident.
Benefits
- Houston-based contract role with an anticipated six-month duration.
- Estimated start date of July 3, 2026.
- Participation in a global on-call rotation.
About Engineers and Constructors International Inc.
Engineers and Constructors International Inc. (ECI Group) is a multi-discipline engineering consultancy that provides process design, detailed engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) for polymer, chemical, and industrial plants, plus technical staffing. It serves owners and operators across full plant lifecycles, from revamps to greenfield facilities. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the privately held firm operates globally and covers instrument/control, electrical/power, mechanical/piping, civil/structural, and process engineering.