Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment assistance

Technology stipend

401k employer match

Competitive health benefits

Generous PTO & parental leave

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation in Dallas, Texas, seeks an experienced DevOps professional to design and run scalable AWS-based infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

You will automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, manage Kubernetes clusters, and implement security and observability across development, staging, and production environments. This role offers hybrid work options and strong professional growth with top-tier benefits.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Two years of experience as a DevOps engineer, software developer, cloud engineer, or related.
• Experience automating AWS infrastructure with Ansible and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, operations, security, and production control teams to elicit and fulfil technical requirements.
• Manage and support AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and security groups.
• Automate deployment and configuration of AWS infra using Ansible and Terraform.
• Develop automation frameworks to manage Apache Kafka and IBM MQ messaging systems; validate topics and queues.
• Design end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube, Veracode, Sysdig, and JFrog; enable Docker deployments across environments.

Skills

AWS & cloud engineering

CI/CD automation

Kubernetes & containers

Security best practices

Education

Master’s degree in computer science or related

Tools

AWS

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Rancher

Helm

Harness

HashiCorp Vault

GitHub

JFrog

S3

IAM

Kafka

IBM MQ

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.

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

Salary $122,100-$160,200

Benefits

• A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness.
• 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.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

EOE.

OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

OCC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, age, marital status, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

OCC is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. OCC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, age, marital status, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Numerous studies have shown that people from certain groups are less likely than others to apply to jobs if they believe they do not meet 100% of the requirements. We encourage everyone to review our open positions and apply if you think your experience may be a match, even if you do not meet all of the qualifications. Your perspective may be an element we need to continue building innovative solutions to support the markets and market participants we serve.

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