DevOps Engineer (Contract

Join the ECI Group's Professional Technical Services Network as a Dev Ops Engineer. This is a Houston based a six-month contract role.

Note:

No visa sponsor ships are available at this time for this position.

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 Dev Ops Engineer, you will be a hands‑on Engineer and a member of a small high‑performing team responsible for global derivatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven both by product teams and 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 collaboration with delivery and infrastructure teams.
• Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution across development, support, and technical business users.
• Serve as a 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.

• 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.
• Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms, individual Feed handlers and enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds.
• Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of time series analytic frameworks including kdb, shakti or similar technologies.

• Solid track record in application deployment best practices.
• 10+ years of 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, Power Shell, 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, Trading Screen).
• 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.

• 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.