Associate Principal, Software Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering

Who We Are
About Us
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.
What We Offer
A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
Student Loan Repayment Assistance
Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
Generous PTO and Parental leave
Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision
Summary
OTSI (Office of Technology Strategy & Innovation) is OCC's technology strategy, research, and development team. The team focuses on architectural design, problem solving, and security using cutting edge technologies to deliver solutions for the organization as part of the OCC Unified Technology Strategy.
As an Associate Principal, Software Engineer, you will be part of a small Innovation team of Engineers that will collaborate with stakeholders, partner teams, and Solutions Architects to research and engineer emerging technologies as part of a comprehensive requirements-driven solution design. You will be developing technology engineering requirements and working on Proof-of-Concept and laboratory testing efforts using modern approaches to process and automation. You will build/deploy/document/manage Lab environments within On-Prem/Cloud Datacenters to be used for Proof-of-Concepts and rapid prototyping. In this engineering role, you will use your technology background to evaluate emerging technologies and help OTSI Leadership make informed decisions on changes to the OCC Technology Roadmap.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Engineer and maintain Lab environments in Public Cloud and OCC Data Centers using Infrastructure as Code techniques
• Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture and Cloud Platform Engineering teams to evaluate, document, and demonstrate Proof of Concepts for OCC infrastructure, application and services that impact the Technology Roadmap
• Document Technology design decisions and conduct Technology assessments as part of a centralized Demand Management process within IT
• Apply your expertise in compute, storage, database, serverless, monitoring, microservices, and event management to pilot new/innovative solutions to business problems
• Find opportunities to improve existing infrastructure architecture to improve performance, support, scalability, reliability, and security
• Incorporate security best practices, Identity and Access Management, and encryption mechanisms for data protection
• Develop automation scripts and processes to streamline routine tasks such as scaling, patching, backup, and recovery
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the Lab environments that will be used to validate assumptions within high level Solution Designs

Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Ability to think strategically and map architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs
• Advanced problem-solving skills and logical approach to solving problems
• [Required] Ability to develop tools and automate tasks using scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, PERL, Ruby, etc
• [Preferred] Experience with DevOps tools, eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• [Preferred] Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

Technical Skills:

• In depth knowledge of on-premises, cloud and hybrid networking concepts
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• [Preferred] Familiarity with security standards such as the NIST CSF

Education and/or Experience:

• [Preferred] Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science related degree or equivalent experience
• [Required] 7+ years of experience as a System or Cloud Engineer with hands on implementation, security, and standards experience within a hybrid technology environment
• [Required] 3+ years of experience contributing to the architecture of Cloud and On-Prem Solutions

Certificates or Licenses:

• [Preferred] Cloud computing certification such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Azure Administrator or something similar
• [Desired] Technical Security Certifications such as AWS Certified Security, Microsoft Azure Security Engineer or something similar
• [Desired] CCNA, Network+ or other relevant Networking certifications

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer