Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC); Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment assistance

Technology stipend

Generous PTO and parental leave

401k employer match

Health benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) seeks a seasoned DevOps engineer to manage and optimize their AWS infrastructure, deploy automation via Terraform/Ansible, and maintain scalable Kubernetes clusters. You will design end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and safeguard systems with best practices in security and operations.

Ideal candidates bring a Master's degree in CS or related field, 2+ years of DevOps/Cloud experience, and strong skills in Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Vault.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or related field and two years of related experience required.
• Experience automating deployment and configuration of AWS infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS and implement CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiar with security scanning, artifact management, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, operations, security, and production control teams to elicit requirements.
• Manage and support AWS infrastructure using EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, and security groups.
• Automate deployment with Ansible and Terraform for scalable, high-availability infra.
• Develop Terraform frameworks for Kafka/IBM MQ and ensure reliable data exchange.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Security

Networking

Education

Master's degree in computer science or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Rancher

HashiCorp Vault

Helm

Harness

JFrog

Docker

Job description

Duties

Collaborate with various product, infrastructure, operations, security, and production control teams to elicit and fulfil technical requirements of these teams. Manage and support AWS Infrastructure, using AWS EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, AMI and security groups. Automate deployment and configuration of AWS infrastructure using Ansible and Terraform, managing EC2 instances, VPC networking, IAM access controls, S3 storage, and ELB load balancer services to support scalable and high available infrastructure. Develop automation frameworks using Terraform to manage configuration of Apache Kafka and IBM MQ messaging systems, performing validation of topic and queue configuration, message routing workflows, and consumer processing to ensure reliable data exchange between distributed systems. Deploy and repave Kafka clusters for developers using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible and Docker. Perform Harness deployments through HELM chart and Kubernetes clusters. Provision and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS infrastructure by configuring worker nodes, network policies, and persistent storage, managing cluster lifecycle through Rancher, packaging and deploying applications using Helm and Harness deployment pipelines and implementing secret management through HashiCorp Vault. Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD automation pipelines using Jenkins Groovy scripting, GitHub source control, enabling automated build and testing workflows, static code analysis using SonarQube, security scanning using Veracode and Sysdig, artifact management using JFrog and deployment of Docker containerized applications across development, staging and production environments. Elicit requirements for sizing of application deployments to manage expected workload. Monitor and tune the performance of applications working with product teams. Confer with product teams leads and practitioners to create deployment plans. Confer with the Enterprise Architecture and Product Architecture teams to devise implementation details. Promote standards across application configuration towards the highest security. Collaborate with access management and security teams on setting up roles and permissions for systems and users using least privilege strategies. Collaborate with the integration/performance testing team to leverage integrated release tests in Integration/Release Acceptance environments. Collaborate with operations and enablement teams to deliver, configure, and test applications. Collaborate with production controls teams on monitoring, failover, logging, etc. Provide guidance to systems and DevOps engineers for building highly performant environment. Ideate and implement infrastructure failover scenarios. Confer with networking teams on connectivity details and issue resolution, including between on-premises and AWS. Perform deployment of applications in VM based as well as container-based deployments. Develop documentation for operations of SDLC pipelines and practices to enable technical support of applications and infrastructure. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. *This position qualifies for The Options Clearing Corporation’s Employee Referral Program.*

Collaborate with various product, infrastructure, operations, security, and production control teams to elicit and fulfil technical requirements of these teams. Manage and support AWS Infrastructure, using AWS EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, AMI and security groups. Automate deployment and configuration of AWS infrastructure using Ansible and Terraform, managing EC2 instances, VPC networking, IAM access controls, S3 storage, and ELB load balancer services to support scalable and high available infrastructure. Develop automation frameworks using Terraform to manage configuration of Apache Kafka and IBM MQ messaging systems, performing validation of topic and queue configuration, message routing workflows, and consumer processing to ensure reliable data exchange between distributed systems. Deploy and repave Kafka clusters for developers using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible and Docker. Perform Harness deployments through HELM chart and Kubernetes clusters. Provision and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS infrastructure by configuring worker nodes, network policies, and persistent storage, managing cluster lifecycle through Rancher, packaging and deploying applications using Helm and Harness deployment pipelines and implementing secret management through HashiCorp Vault. Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD automation pipelines using Jenkins Groovy scripting, GitHub source control, enabling automated build and testing workflows, static code analysis using SonarQube, security scanning using Veracode and Sysdig, artifact management using JFrog and deployment of Docker containerized applications across development, staging and production environments. Elicit requirements for sizing of application deployments to manage expected workload. Monitor and tune the performance of applications working with product teams. Confer with product teams leads and practitioners to create deployment plans. Confer with the Enterprise Architecture and Product Architecture teams to devise implementation details. Promote standards across application configuration towards the highest security. Collaborate with access management and security teams on setting up roles and permissions for systems and users using least privilege strategies. Collaborate with the integration/performance testing team to leverage integrated release tests in Integration/Release Acceptance environments. Collaborate with operations and enablement teams to deliver, configure, and test applications. Collaborate with production controls teams on monitoring, failover, logging, etc. Provide guidance to systems and DevOps engineers for building highly performant environment. Ideate and implement infrastructure failover scenarios. Confer with networking teams on connectivity details and issue resolution, including between on-premises and AWS. Perform deployment of applications in VM based as well as container-based deployments. Develop documentation for operations of SDLC pipelines and practices to enable technical support of applications and infrastructure. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. *This position qualifies for The Options Clearing Corporation’s Employee Referral Program.*

Education & Experience Required

Master’s degree in computer science or related and two (2) years of experience as a DevOps engineer, software developer, cloud engineer, or related

Special Skills Required

Must have work experience with each of the following: 1) Automating deployment and configuration of AWS infrastructure using Ansible and Terraform, managing EC2 instances, VPC networking, IAM access controls, S3 storage, and ELB load balancer services to support scalable and high available infrastructure; 2) Provisioning and operating Kubernetes clusters on AWS infrastructure by configuring worker nodes, network policies, and persistent storage, managing cluster lifecycle through Rancher, packaging and deploying applications using Helm and Harness deployment pipelines and implementing secret management through HashiCorp Vault; 3) Developing automation frameworks using Terraform to manage configuration of Apache Kafka and IBM MQ messaging systems, performing validation of topic and queue configuration, message routing workflows, and consumer processing to ensure reliable data exchange between distributed systems; and 4) Designing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD automation pipelines using Jenkins Groovy scripting, GitHub source control, enabling automated build and testing workflows, static code analysis using SonarQube, security scanning using Veracode and Sysdig, artifact management using JFrog and deployment of Docker containerized applications across development, staging and production environments. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted.

Salary

$122,100-$160,200

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work


• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education


• Student Loan Repayment Assistance


• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely


• Generous PTO and Parental leave


• 401k Employer Match


• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.


• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.


• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers


• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer