Senior DevOps Engineer

Duration: 5-6 months (potential for extension)

Rate: $80/hr

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]

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.