Senior DevOps Engineer: Front Office Trading Systems (8w)

Engineers and Constructors International Inc.

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 124,000 - 179,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

The ECI Group seeks a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to support mission-critical global derivatives trading systems within Shell's Trading & Supply organization. This Houston-based contract role focuses on production stability, FIX connectivity, and improving front-office trading performance and reliability.

Duration is 8 weeks, starting November 9, 2026. Candidates must be a US citizen or permanent resident and bring extensive experience in commodity trading, FIX, and real-time

Qualifications

8+ years in commodity trading, capital markets, or investment banking tech environments.
Extensive experience supporting front-office trading applications and production environments.

Responsibilities

Maintain the stability, availability, and performance of global derivatives trading applications.
Provide rapid incident response and troubleshooting for business-critical trading systems.
Support front-office trading workflows, including order capture, execution, allocation, and settlement.
Work directly with traders, developers, and infrastructure teams to resolve production issues.
Participate in a global on-call rotation to support trading operations.

Skills

Derivatives trading

Fix protocol engineering

Scripting: Python/PowerShell/C#/SQL

Production support

Trading systems

On-call support

Tools

Trading Technologies

NYFIX

Bloomberg

TradingScreen

Job description

Duration is 8 weeks, starting November 9, 2026. Candidates must be a US citizen or permanent resident and bring extensive experience in commodity trading, FIX, and real-time

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