Senior DevOps Engineer - Trading & Supply

Location: Houston, TX (on-site, 5 days per week)
Type: Contract

Role Summary
We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to support global derivatives trading production environments for a global energy and commodity trading client. The focus is on stability, resilience, troubleshooting and scalable trading technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively manage critical end-to-end workflows and improve production stability and resilience.
• Troubleshoot issues across development, support and technical business users.
• Act as SME for trading system initiatives and support algorithmic trading technology.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation and rapid incident response.
• Own monitoring, reliability improvements and production issue resolution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Front Office application support and vendor management.
• 8+ years of experience in commodity trading, capital markets or investment banking.
• Strong knowledge of the exchange-traded derivatives lifecycle.
• Scripting/programming in Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or similar.
• 8+ years of FIX engineering, including exchange/vendor certification.
• Experience with market data providers and EMS/OMS vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, TT, NYFIX and TradingScreen.
• Messaging/network protocols such as TCP and multicast. RTDS/kdb/shakti experience is highly valued.
• Must be able to work on-site in Houston, TX, 5 days per week.