Platform Engineer - VN

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 Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology‑powered services.

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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 Dev Ops advocate who works closely with development and operations teams improving the collaboration whilst removing any impediments through automation, improved tooling, or processes. The role is a key role in a multi‑disciplined team building and operating a new security conscious cloud environment.

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology‑led service provides access to all major exchanges, order‑flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award‑winning data, insights, and analytics.

The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Reporting to the COO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise‑wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.

IT runs Marex’s enterprise‑wide services to end users and actively manages the firm’s infrastructure and data to provide and accelerate business value. A Data team enables the firm to leverage data to increase productivity and improve business decisions, as well as maintain data compliance. The Infrastructure group delivers operations and engineering across Infrastructure Operations, Network, Communications, Endpoint and Platform Engineering teams with a key focus on Infrastructure as Code/automation & innovation.

IT also includes the global IT Service Desk providing support and self‑service to business users across Marex, and our Service Management team that runs core ITSM processes and develops our departmental tooling.

The Platform Engineering function strives to automate infrastructure management and provide Marex Technology team with self‑service tools and workflows with the aim to streamline software delivery and accelerate the pace of innovation.

This role is based at the Chicago, IL office and requires at least 3 days per week in the office.

• 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…