Senior DevOps Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a world‑leading Energy Trading company in the Trading & Supply space.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be a hands‑on engineer and a member of a small, high‑performing team responsible for global derivatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven by product teams and by engineering backlog improvements and tech debt.

Responsibilities

• 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 a subject‑matter expert for trading systems initiatives.
• Provide hands‑on support for scalable algorithmic trading technology in a compliant and flexible way.
• Maintain knowledge of Algo regulation, audit and compliance (RTS6).
• Participate in the on‑call rota as part of a global team of development engineers.

Qualifications

• Understanding of all major global futures exchanges.
• Knowledge of the full exchange‑traded derivatives trade lifecycle.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets / Investment Banks.
• Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
• Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of real‑time market data distribution platforms, individual feed handlers and enterprise‑level real‑time consolidated feeds.
• Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of time‑series analytic frameworks including kdb, shakti or similar technologies.
• Solid track record in application deployment best practices.
• 10+ years of 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 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.
• Strong technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages.
• 8+ years of 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 debugging network protocols such as TCP, multicast.
• 8+ years of operational experience in supporting market data distribution platforms such as real‑time distribution systems (RTDS) for DACS, ADH & ADS components.
• Knowledge of multicast data traffic management, arbitration and message queuing.
• 5+ years of operational experience supporting time‑series frameworks such as kdb, shakti.