Senior DevOps Engineer - Trading & Supply
Location: Houston, TX (on-site, 5 days per week)
Type: Contract
Role Summary
We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to support global derivatives trading production environments for a global energy and commodity trading client. The focus is on stability, resilience, troubleshooting and scalable trading technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively manage critical end-to-end workflows and improve production stability and resilience.
- Troubleshoot issues across development, support and technical business users.
- Act as SME for trading system initiatives and support algorithmic trading technology.
- Participate in a global on-call rotation and rapid incident response.
- Own monitoring, reliability improvements and production issue resolution.
Requirements
- 10+ years of Front Office application support and vendor management.
- 8+ years of experience in commodity trading, capital markets or investment banking.
- Strong knowledge of the exchange-traded derivatives lifecycle.
- Scripting/programming in Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or similar.
- 8+ years of FIX engineering, including exchange/vendor certification.
- Experience with market data providers and EMS/OMS vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, TT, NYFIX and TradingScreen.
- Messaging/network protocols such as TCP and multicast. RTDS/kdb/shakti experience is highly valued.
- Must be able to work on-site in Houston, TX, 5 days per week.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of front-office application support and vendor management experience
- 8+ years of experience in commodity trading, capital markets, or investment banking
- Strong knowledge of the exchange-traded derivatives lifecycle
- Programming or scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL, or similar
- 8+ years of FIX engineering experience, including exchange or vendor certification
- Experience with market data providers and EMS/OMS vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, TT, NYFIX, and TradingScreen
- Experience with messaging and network protocols such as TCP and multicast
- RTDS, kdb, or Shakti experience
- Ability to work onsite in Houston, Texas, five days per week
What We Do
Indigo Beam Consulting represents a common sense approach to solving business problems through technology. Indigo is the most fundamental yet overlooked color of the rainbow. Born out of Bluware Inc., Indigo Beam was conceived as a full-service business consulting company that deeply cares about creating technology solutions that are in harmony with environments in which they exist. We believe that for a technology solution to be sustainable, it has to be congruent with the business processes it serves, indigenously maintainable, and cognizant of the unique traits of the organization which it calls home. Indigo Beam consultants represent a wealth of experience and deep expertise in the Power and Utilities, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and Healthcare Industries. Our reference list represents over twenty five satisfied and long term relationships who are not only clients but part of the Indigo Beam Family.
