Trading Systems DevOps Engineer – Front‑Office (Contract)

Engineers and Constructors International Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Engineers and Constructors International Inc. is looking for a DevOps Engineer based in Houston for a six-month contract. The role demands extensive experience with front-office trading support and FIX protocol, including strong technical and analytical skills.

You will be part of a high-performing team ensuring optimal trading environments through proactive management and troubleshooting. Ideal candidates have at least 8 years of relevant experience and a comprehensive understanding of trading systems and market data distribution.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in FIX protocol and trading support.
• Solid experience in application deployment best practices.
• Knowledge of market data providers and liquidity aggregation platforms.

Responsibilities

• Manage critical end-to-end workflows for trading environments.
• Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for trading systems.

Skills

Front Office application support

Incident response

Scripting (Python, PowerShell, C#)

FIX protocol

Trading lifecycle knowledge

Analytical skills

Tools

Real Time Distribution Systems

kdb

Trading systems (TT, NYFIX)

Job description

Join the ECI Group's Professional Technical Services Network as an DevOps Engineer.This is a Houston based a six-month contract role.NOTE: No visa sponsorships are available at this time for this position.

Role Overview
Must have strong front-office trading support experience, including 8+ years of FIX protocol, exchange connectivity, and real-time market data distribution (RTDS/DACS/ADH/ADS).

As DevOps 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

Required Industry Knowledge:
• Understanding of all major global futures exchanges
• Knowledge of full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets / Investment Banks – to bring credible externalisation of mindset and approach and ensure we are cost: value competitive
• Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
• [Mininum of 8 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms, individual Feedhandlers and Enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds]
• [Mininum of 8 years of knowledge of timeseries analytic frameworks include kdb, shakti or similar technologies]

Key Skills and Experience required
• Solid track record in application deployment best practices
• 10 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
• 8 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.
• [8 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]
• [5 years+ operational experience in supporting time series frameworks such as kdb, shakti]

Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication skills to interact with traders, developers, and stakeholders.
• Thrives in high-pressure situations while working alongside traders, developers and other engineering teams
• Proactive, self-motivated, and flexible with a positive attitude
• Ability to work under demanding deadlines with changing priorities in a trading room environment