OCP Engineer w​/FIX Messaging Experience

The Fountain Group is currently seeking an
OCP Engineer w/FIX Messaging Experience for a prominent client of ours. This position is located at Jersey City, NJ
.Details for the position are as follows:

Type:Hybrid - 3 days onsite / 2 days remote

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Duration:9-12 Months

Start Date:Immediate

W2 candidates only

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Job Description:

Financial Services/Banking industry experience is required.

Seeking an experienced OCP Engineer to engineer, deploy, automate, and support mission-critical containerized middleware platforms supporting real-time trading infrastructure. The role focuses on Red Hat Open Shift, Kubernetes, FIX messaging platforms, Linux administration, cloud infrastructure, and Dev Ops automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineer and support Kubernetes and Red Hat Open Shift (OCP) container platforms for FIX messaging environments.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Broadridge Appia, Trade Scope, QuickFIX, and SWIFT Alliance Access platforms.
• Build and manage Docker images, containers, registries, and volumes.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git Hub, and Ansible.
• Automate cluster provisioning, platform operations, deployments, and infrastructure management.
• Provide L2/L3 production support, root cause analysis, incident resolution, and disaster recovery support.
• Perform Linux administration, platform patching, upgrades, and middleware maintenance.
• Support cloud-hosted container platforms within AWS environments.
• Develop automation using Shell, Bash, Perl, or Python scripting.
• Create technical documentation, operational runbooks, and deployment procedures.
• Participate in weekend implementations and on-call production support rotations.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of Kubernetes and container platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years of Red Hat Open Shift Container Platform (OCP) administration.
• Financial Services or Banking industry experience.
• Hands-on experience with Broadridge Appia, Trade Scope FIX, QuickFIX, and SWIFT Alliance Access.
• Strong knowledge of FIX Protocol and FIX order flow.
• Docker image creation, Dockerfiles, container lifecycle management, registries, and volumes.
• Linux system administration and networking.
• Shell, Bash, Perl, or Python scripting.
• CI/CD implementation using Jenkins.
• Bitbucket, Git Hub, Git, JIRA, and Ansible.
• AWS cloud platform experience.
• Container orchestration and cluster administration.
• Production support for real-time trading or high-performance messaging environments.
• Root cause analysis, incident management, platform patching, and infrastructure maintenance.

Preferred Skills

• VMware administration.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Sonar Qube.
• Prometheus and Grafana.
• YAML.
• AWS services including EC2, S3, ELB, IAM, VPC, Route 53, RDS, Auto Scaling, Cloud Watch, Lambda, and SNS.
• Exchange connectivity and FIX client connectivity support.
• Distributed systems engineering.
• Middleware performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Disaster Recovery implementation and testing.

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