Associate Principal, Software Engineering DevOps

Summary

The Platform Engineering Team is seeking elite software engineers to join our team in our mission to empower OCC’s community of engineers with reliable DevOps solutions, and to help us drive forward the development of our Internal Developer Portal.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Actively participating in Agile ceremonies (daily standup, refinement, planning, etc.)
• Influencing team direction, assisting in planning and coordinating activities
• Working on user stories:
  • Automating manual processes and workflows
  • Writing high-quality programming code
  • Writing user and developer documentation
  • Reviewing pull requests to ensure adherence to highest quality standards
  • Developing automated tests and ensuring adequate test coverage
  • Debugging and troubleshooting issues
  • Containerizing applications and implementing Infrastructure as Code
  • Provisioning and maintaining cloud resources
• Devising and implementing high-availability and resilience solutions
• Designing implementation, logical, dataflow and other technical diagrams
• Collaborating with Architecture on devising solution architecture
• Collaborating with identity/security teams on setting up roles and permissions
• Identifying necessary work and creating and grooming new user stories based on it
• Collaborating with other teams to drive organizational success
• Demonstrating features to stakeholders and leadership
• Advising teams in the process of decision-making
• Presenting concepts/projects to technical and non-technical stakeholders clearly
• Engaging stakeholders to gather business requirements
• Engaging Business Management to analyze requirements
• Engaging Architecture and Security to obtain reviews and approvals
• Promoting standards and best practices across applications, security & configurations

• Providing guidance to software, DevOps and systems engineers
• Mentoring/coaching junior developers
• Ensuring policies and standard operating procedures are followed strictly

• Proactively taking initiatives to drive operational excellence
• Monitoring Slack channels and mailing lists to ensure swift turnaround to requests
• Ensuring deadlines and SLAs are met
• Staying up-to-date on the latest technology trends and standards

​Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years programming experience
• Hands-on experience working in Agile and DevOps cultures, focusing on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) automation and process improvement
• Experience working both independently and well as collaborating in a fast-paced, change-oriented, and demanding IT environment with a strong focus on business outcomes
• Self-starter – takes the initiative to research, learn, and deliver. Anticipates the play.
• Team player – humble, collaborative, and focused on making sure the entire team succeeds
• Previous experience working in highly-regulated organizations considered a plus, especially in the finance industry

Technical Skill

• At least 3 years of prior hands-on experience with Python, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Terraform (preferably Enterprise)
• Fluency writing unit and integration tests, especially with frameworks such as pytest and unittest
• Working experience with AWS, particularly with EC2, IAM Roles and Policies, S3 Bucket Policies, Security Groups, NACLs, multi-region failover, high availability and fault tolerant architectures, and containerized microservices
• Prior experience using GitHub, Docker/Podman, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Terraform
• Knowledge of Linux, bash, JavaScript/TypeScript, OWASP Top 10 and ServiceNow a plus

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Education and/or Training

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in STEM

Certificates or Licenses

• Relevant industry certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect and/or Developer Associate preferred

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

Salary Range

Incentive Range

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer