{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"6c8bc20de934aff1ea1bfbb7","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6c8bc20de934aff1ea1bfbb7","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6c8bc20de934aff1ea1bfbb7","title":"Senior DevOps Engineer – Front Office Trading Technology","description":"Join a high-performing engineering organization supporting mission-critical trading platforms that power global markets. Take on complex technical challenges, work alongside experienced technology professionals, and make a direct impact on the reliability and performance of real-time trading systems in a fast-paced environment.Primary Services is actively recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support a prestigious global client in the commodities trading industry. This highly visible position is part of a lean engineering organization responsible for maintaining and enhancing business-critical derivatives trading platforms. The role offers the opportunity to support front-office production environments, improve platform resilience, drive automation initiatives, and serve as a subject matter expert across trading technologies, market data, exchange connectivity, and production reliability.ResponsibilitiesSupport global front-office derivatives trading production environments and ensure high system availability.Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents affecting trading platforms and critical workflows.Improve platform reliability by reducing technical debt and implementing long-term engineering enhancements.Support FIX connectivity, exchange integrations, and vendor certification activities.Maintain and optimize real-time market data distribution platforms and enterprise market data services.Deploy applications using established release management and deployment best practices.Troubleshoot TCP/IP, multicast, messaging, and network protocol issues impacting trading applications.Develop automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL, or similar scripting technologies.Support time-series data platforms including kdb, Shakti, or comparable technologies.Collaborate with developers, infrastructure teams, technical business users, and trading stakeholders to resolve production issues.Provide subject matter expertise for trading systems, algorithmic trading infrastructure, and production support initiatives.Participate in a global on-call rotation supporting business-critical trading systems.QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.Minimum of 10 years of front-office application support experience within commodity trading, capital markets, investment banking, hedge funds, or similar financial trading environments.Minimum of 8 years of FIX engineering experience supporting exchange-traded environments.Minimum of 8 years of experience supporting real-time market data distribution platforms, including RTDS, DACS, ADH, ADS, or equivalent technologies.Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting kdb, Shakti, or comparable time-series analytics platforms.Strong knowledge of global futures exchanges and the complete exchange-traded derivatives lifecycle.Experience supporting EMS/OMS platforms and exchange connectivity technologies.Hands-on experience with Bloomberg, Refinitiv, LSEG, Trading Technologies, NYFIX, TradingScreen, FlexTrade, ION, or similar trading platforms.Strong proficiency in Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL, and scripting for automation.Experience with TCP/IP, multicast networking, messaging systems, and protocol troubleshooting.Proven experience with vendor management, exchange certification, incident response, and root-cause analysis.Familiarity with algorithmic trading infrastructure, trading compliance, audit requirements, and RTS6 is highly preferred.","company":"Primary Services","rawCompany":"primary services","city":"Houston","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-11T11:51:21.899Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1299.00","title":"Computer Occupations, All Other","slug":"computer-occupations-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"523160","title":"Commodity Contracts Intermediation","slug":"commodity-contracts-intermediation"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior DevOps Engineer – Front Office Trading Technology","description":"Join a high-performing engineering organization supporting mission-critical trading platforms that power global markets. 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