Platform Engineer

Marex Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic global financial services platform as a Platform Engineer, where you'll be at the forefront of building and operating a cutting-edge cloud environment. This role emphasizes collaboration between development and operations, focusing on continuous integration and deployment while ensuring security and compliance. You'll leverage your expertise in cloud technologies like AWS or Azure, along with scripting skills in Python or PowerShell, to enhance the developer experience and automate processes. If you're passionate about DevOps and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Financial Services and cloud environments.
• Strong experience with CI/CD and IAC in DevOps settings.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate platforms for development and operations teams.
• Ensure operational health and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Skills

Cloud Security Best Practices

Python Scripting

PowerShell Scripting

Agile Methodologies

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Relationship Building

DevOps Practices

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Puppet

Ansible

CloudWatch

Splunk

DataDog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Chicago, IL Full-Time Information Technology

Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.

Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022.

The Platform Engineer helps the team create a platform where building, testing, and the releasing of software can happen rapidly, frequently, and reliably. The role is a DevOps advocate who works closely with development and operations teams improving collaboration whilst removing any impediments through automation, improved tooling, or processes. The role is key in a multi-disciplined team building and operating a new security-conscious cloud environment.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate a platform used by development and operations teams to provision their infrastructure and run their applications in the cloud and on-premise.
• Perform weekend work as necessary to carry out maintenance, participate in on-call duties, and respond to support escalations to ensure the operational health of the platform.
• Support any teams using the platform as required.
• Deliver continuous integration and development platform that integrates seamlessly with the development tools already in use and ensure its effectiveness to deliver software rapidly.
• Improve the developer experience, facilitate developers in building cloud infrastructure, and deploying their applications free of impediments.
• Develop policies, standards, and guidelines for IAC and CI/CD that teams can follow.
• Propose and implement workflow and toolchain improvements to automate repetitive tasks.
• Ensure security and governance are considered a priority by applying security practices as a part of the SDLC and developing and enforcing policies.
• Collaborate with teams on architectural design and cloud best practices.
• DevOps advocate to educate and promote DevOps practices across technology.
• Stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling.
• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.

Competencies, Skills and Experience:

• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field desired
• At least five (5) years of experience in Financial Services industry.
• Experience working closely with development and operations teams throughout the SDLC, implemented CI/CD effectively and deployed into Cloud environments with IAC.
• Experience in deploying and running applications securely in AWS or Azure, familiarity with cloud native tooling and cloud security best practices.
• Experience building and operating containerized workload and used serverless technology
• Proficiency in scripting with programming languages Python or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience monitoring in the cloud using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana
• Broad technical knowledge with a background in Linux Engineering or Development/Automation.
• Experience with fast-moving Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: $100,000 to $140,000 per year and eligible for discretionary bonus.

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.