Senior DevOps Engineer C2c jobs Houston, TX

Tech Mirrors; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors in Houston seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer focused on trading production environments. You will be a hands-on engineer in a compact team, aligning product and engineering backlogs to improve stability and performance of global derivatives systems.

The role requires strong scripting (Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL), experience with real-time market data and FIX-based workflows, and the ability to operate in a hybrid, cross-timezone setup with on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets or investment banks.
• Understanding of major global futures exchanges.
• Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv) and liquidity aggregators.
• Experience with real-time market data distribution platforms and feed handlers.
• Experience with algorithmic trading technology and RTS6 compliance desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end trading production workflows for global derivatives.
• Collaborate with delivery and infra teams to improve stability.
• Troubleshoot across development, support, and business users.
• Serve as subject matter expert for trading systems initiatives.
• Participate in on-call rotation with a global team.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

C#

SQL

FIX Engineering

Trading systems knowledge

Incident response

Monitoring

Shell scripting

Tools

FIX Engines

EMS/OMS

Job description

Role – Senior DevOps Engineer – Trading & Supply (Commodity Trading & Capital Markets)

Location – Houston, TX – Hybrid

Required Industry Knowledge:

• Understanding of all major global futures exchanges
• Knowledge of full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets / Investment Banks – to bring credible externalization of mindset and approach and ensure we are cost: value competitive
• Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
• [Minimum of 3 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms, individual Feed handlers and Enterprise level real-time consolidated feeds]
• [Minimum of 3 years of knowledge of timeseries analytic frameworks include kdb, shakti or similar technologies]

Role Overview

AsDevOps Engineer, you will be a hands‑on Engineer and be a member of a small high performing, team responsible for global derviatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven both by product teams but also engineering team backlogs of improvements and tech debt.

Work includes –

• Ensure proactive management of critical end—to‑end workflows, continuously improving stability and resilience through close collarabituon with delivery and infrastructure teams
• Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution across development, support, and technical business users.
• Serve as an subject matter expert for trading systems initiatives.
• Hands‑on experience in supporting scalable algorithmic trading technology in a compliant and flexible way.
• Experience of Algo regulation, audit and compliance & RTS6) is highly desirable
• Being part of the on‑call rota working as part of a global team development engineers

Key Skills and Experience required

• Solid track record in application deployment best practices
• 6 years+ experience with Front Office application support and vendor management
• Rapid incident response to maintain continuous trading operations, turning quick fixes into robust, scalable solutions
• Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting, owning reliability improvements and ensuring their successful delivery
• Understanding of trading lifecycle, including order capture & execution, allocation workflow, settlement, and compliance requirements
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and propose innovative solutions.
• Must have strong technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages
• 3 years+ solid relevant FIX Engineering experience
• Proven experience with exchange and vendor certification
• Knowledge of Third Party Networks and EMS/OMS software vendors. (e.g., TT, NYFIX, Bloomberg, TradingScreen)
• Experience in messaging systems, and experience debugging network protocols such as TCP, multicast, would be highly regarded.
• [3 years+ operational experience in supporting market data distribution platforms such as, Real Time Distribution Systems (RTDS) knowledge for DACS, ADH & ADS components]
• [Knowledge of Multicast data traffic management, arbitration and message queueing]
• [3 years+ operational experience in supporting time series frameworks such as kdb, shakti]