Jobs at Vitol

Deploys and supports Oracle CTRM and analytics database environments worldwide. Responsibilities include database design, replication, synchronization, high availability, monitoring, backup and recovery, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and infrastructure administration across Oracle, Unix, Solaris, Linux, and storage platforms. The role also supports middleware, security, networking, application teams, user requests, and ad hoc infrastructure projects.

Secure Vitol’s AWS and GCP environments by designing cloud security controls, operating Wiz, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto platforms, maintaining secure baselines and guardrails, protecting containers and sensitive data, managing vulnerabilities, embedding DevSecOps checks, automating remediation, and advising engineering teams on cloud risk and governance.

Engineer and operate enterprise endpoint security across desktops, laptops, VDIs, mobile devices, and Microsoft 365. Responsibilities include EDR/EPP deployment, hardening, patching, vulnerability remediation, Intune migration and management, identity and conditional access integration, DLP, monitoring, automation, reporting, and audit compliance. The role collaborates with security, infrastructure, cloud, network, and support teams worldwide.

Supports cybersecurity governance, risk management, compliance, and auditing across Vitol and its affiliates. Maintains security policies, information asset inventories, control catalogs, supplier audits, and risk assessments. Monitors compliance with regulations and security frameworks, develops mitigation strategies, reports risk exposure, and responds to internal and external audit requirements. The role requires travel to affiliate locations and may involve duties outside normal business hours.

Analyze charterparty and sale contracts, shipping documents, demurrage, and related claims. Compute and review claims, negotiate settlements with shipowners and counterparties, coordinate with internal business teams, report outstanding positions to management, and monitor industry developments and relevant case law. The role requires careful commercial analysis, strong communication, relationship management, and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment.

Perform post-trade checks, reconciliations, discrepancy investigations, weekly trade close-outs, and follow-up on outstanding items. Maintain trade records and supporting documentation, coordinate with internal teams and external parties, and assist with ad hoc projects. The role requires accuracy, organization, communication, Excel proficiency, deadline management, and willingness to support colleagues.

Develop and expand Vitol’s Python and agentic development tools, support the developer community, maintain shared Python packages, and advise teams on technical challenges. Responsibilities include application support, training, onboarding, stakeholder collaboration, and improving systems with Helpdesk, Infrastructure, and Security teams. The role also supports migration from Miniconda to Astral uv and promotes software development standards.

Develop and support global analytics applications using .NET and React. Build AI-enabled solutions with LLMs and machine learning, design distributed systems and microservices, collaborate with business stakeholders, and own projects from design through deployment and support. Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, mentoring, and delivery of resilient, maintainable systems used across the organization.

Develop and maintain Vitol’s in-house commodity trading risk management systems covering PnL, risk, valuation, reporting, and finance. The role combines software engineering and business analysis, requiring direct engagement with trading, finance, and senior stakeholders to gather requirements, model data, design solutions, test, deploy, train users, and provide ongoing support. Responsibilities include building scalable reporting architecture, valuation engines, finance functionality, and systems integrations. Occasional travel to international offices may be required.

Maintain and improve internal trading technology applications, deployment tools, developer environments, reporting systems, messaging tools, batch services, and CI/CD quality tooling. The role involves automating workflows, improving reliability and developer productivity, supporting releases, integrating AI-enabled development tools, and collaborating across engineering and support teams.

Leads a distributed global SOC, overseeing analysts, operating procedures, outsourced SOC performance, detection engineering, threat intelligence, and L2/L3 incident response. Develops playbooks, conducts investigations and post-incident reviews, partners with red and purple teams, improves MITRE ATT&CK coverage, and mentors cybersecurity staff. Coordinates with IT, Legal, Compliance, and business stakeholders while reporting security metrics and risk trends to senior leadership.

Build and deploy LLM-based automation solutions for trading, operations, and support teams. Design agentic workflows, prompts, AI Skills, and MCPs; collaborate with business users; translate needs into technical solutions; and deliver production-ready AI systems. The role requires Python development, LLM experience, stakeholder engagement, documentation, autonomy, and continuous learning in commodities and quantitative finance.

Supports energy and commodities trading desks by maintaining position summaries, monitoring trade exposures, reviewing futures near expiry, and assisting with hedging decisions. Analyzes and explains daily P&L movements, prepares management reports, provides decision support, performs market and trading analysis, and supports process improvements and internal projects. Requires strong numerical, financial market, trade lifecycle, data analysis, and communication skills.

Accounting intern supporting daily accounting operations, accounts payable, bank and supplier reconciliations, journal entries, month-end and year-end closing, record maintenance, management reporting, financial analysis, and annual budgeting. The role provides practical exposure to general accounting activities while working with experienced team members.

Provide first- and second-level support for end-user hardware, software, telephony, printers, and trading applications. Set up workstations and accounts for new users, manage devices, deploy applications through SCCM and Intune, coordinate third-party support, document procedures, create helpdesk automation, and perform desk moves. Support AMER users and global teams, including after-hours and on-call coverage.

Build and operate production data pipelines and warehouse models for a global energy trading platform. Develop Python pipelines orchestrated with Prefect, create tested Snowflake models with dbt, migrate legacy Oracle systems, integrate diverse data technologies, and implement quality, freshness, monitoring, and alerting controls. The role also supports AI-ready data, AWS services, platform documentation, and direct collaboration with analysts and desk users.

Build and deploy LLM-based automation solutions for energy and commodities trading workflows. Responsibilities include designing agentic AI workflows, developing prompts, AI Skills, and MCPs, gathering requirements from business stakeholders, and delivering production-ready solutions. The role requires hands-on Python engineering, collaboration with non-technical users, documentation, and autonomous ownership of AI projects.

Lead the creation and governance of Vitol’s enterprise architecture function. Define target-state technology blueprints, architecture standards, integration and data designs, cloud strategy, and build-versus-buy decisions. Govern technology choices, technical debt, application inventories, and demand management while supporting data, AI, cloud, and modernization initiatives. Partner with technology, trading, cybersecurity, and infrastructure leaders, and build a future enterprise architecture team.

Administers commodity transaction contracts for crude, natural gas, power, and fuel oil. Drafts and dispatches confirmations, reviews broker and counterparty documentation, verifies trade economics, incorporates master agreement terms, and escalates discrepancies and delays. Coordinates with Legal, Credit, Operations, and Front Office teams to mitigate contractual, operational, economic, and regulatory risk. Maintains records, updates procedures, supports system testing, responds to queries, and identifies process improvements.

Supports refinery process design, risk assessment, troubleshooting, optimization, and operational reliability. Performs material and energy balances, economic and blending analyses, simulation, equipment evaluations, debottlenecking studies, and feasibility assessments. Develops procedures, manages process safety reviews and Management-of-Change activities, leads plant startup safety reviews, monitors corrosion and performance, ensures product quality and regulatory compliance, and supports integrated refinery and terminal operations.