OpenShift Engineer for FIX Messaging in Trading

The Fountain Group; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Fountain Group is seeking an OCP Engineer with FIX messaging experience for a prominent financial services client in Jersey City, NJ. This hybrid role combines on-site collaboration with remote work, requiring strong Kubernetes/OpenShift expertise, Linux administration, and experience deploying FIX platforms.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, supporting real-time trading infrastructure, and providing L2/L3 production support.

Qualifications

• Financial Services/Banking industry experience is required.
• 6+ years of Kubernetes and container platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) administration.
• Hands-on experience with Broadridge Appia, TradeScope FIX, QuickFIX, and SWIFT Alliance Access.
• Strong knowledge of FIX Protocol and FIX order flow.
• Docker image creation, Dockerfiles, container lifecycle management, registries, and volumes.
• Linux system administration and networking.
• Shell, Bash, Perl, or Python scripting.
• CI/CD implementation using Jenkins.
• Bitbucket, GitHub, Git, JIRA, and Ansible.
• AWS cloud platform experience.
• Container orchestration and cluster administration.
• Production support for real-time trading or high-performance messaging environments.
• Root cause analysis, incident management, platform patching, and infrastructure maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) container platforms for FIX messaging environments.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Broadridge Appia, TradeScope, QuickFIX, and SWIFT Alliance Access platforms.
• Build and manage Docker images, containers, registries, and volumes.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, and Ansible.
• Automate cluster provisioning, platform operations, deployments, and infrastructure management.
• Provide L2/L3 production support, root cause analysis, incident resolution, and disaster recovery support.
• Perform Linux administration, platform patching, upgrades, and middleware maintenance.
• Support cloud-hosted container platforms within AWS environments.
• Develop automation using Shell, Bash, Perl, or Python scripting.
• Create technical documentation, operational runbooks, and deployment procedures.
• Participate in weekend implementations and on-call production support rotations.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

FIX protocol

Linux admin

DevOps automation

AWS cloud

Python scripting

Docker

CI/CD

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub

Ansible

Bitbucket

SWIFT Alliance Access

Job description

The Fountain Group is seeking an OCP Engineer with FIX messaging experience for a prominent financial services client in Jersey City, NJ. This hybrid role combines on-site collaboration with remote work, requiring strong Kubernetes/OpenShift expertise, Linux administration, and experience deploying FIX platforms.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, supporting real-time trading infrastructure, and providing L2/L3 production support.