Associate Principal, Software Engineering DevOps

Summary

Successful candidate will collaborate with various product, infrastructure, operations, security, and production control teams to elicit and fulfil technical requirements of these teams.

Responsibilities

• Guides the implementation using CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes environment
• Directs Review, configure, and execution of Terraform Ansible automation pipelines delivered by product teams
• Guides the setup of common infrastructure platform like multi-region Kubernetes and Kafka cluster, etc
• Elicits requirements for deployment of application and sizing for managing expected workload
• Monitors the performance of applications and tune working with product teams
• Confers with product teams leads and practitioners to create deployment plans
• Confers with the Ent. Architecture and Renaissance architecture teams to devise implementation architecture
• Promotes standards across applications security & configurations
• Collaborates with IAM/security teams on setting up roles/permissions for machines/users
• Collaborates with the integration/performance testing team to leverage integrated release tested in Integration/Release Acceptance environment
• Collaborates operations/enablement teams to deliver infra and apps to start testing
• Collaborates with production controls teams on monitoring, failover, logging, etc
• Provides guidance to systems engineering, Dev/Ops professionals for building highly performant environment
• Implements infrastructure failover scenarios
• Confers Network team on all connectivity plans and issue resolution (including between on-premises and AWS)
• Establishes agile program level practices for efficient collaboration and delivery
• Performs deployment of applications in VM based as well as container-based deployments
• Develops documentation for ORT technical infra/architecture support

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Qualifications & Experience

• [Required] Understanding of Kanban and/or Agile methodologies
• [Required] Able to succeed in fast-paced environment with frequent changes
• [Required] Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences
• [Required] Self-starter – takes the initiative to research, learn and deliver. Anticipates the play
• [Required] Team player – humble, collaborative, and focused on making sure the entire team succeeds

Technical Skills & Background

• [Required] AWS EC2, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Hashicorp Vault
• [Required] Microservices and streaming data intensive application architecture
• [Required] Application architecture, networking, and security in the cloud
• [Required] Setting up platform in AWS for high performance requirements
• [Required] Broad experience in API based development [Required] Git and Artifactory for sourcing artifacts
• [Required] Multi-AZ, Multi-region failover architecture
• [Required] Fluent with different types of data formats and structures, like Json, Protobuf, Avro
• [Required] SQL and NoSQL databases, in-memory data stores
• [Required] Java/Python/Scala/Golang software development
• [Required] Two or more of the following skills: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public-cloud platforms
• [Required] Fluent in industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles
• [Required] Enterprise architecture frameworks, like TOGAF
• [Required] Ability to define and document architecture strategies, designs, and requirements across all enterprise architecture domains – business, information systems (applications & data), and technology
• [Required] Ability to define service-based, component architectures
• [Required] Ability to demonstrate visualization of enterprise architecture concepts.

Certifications

• [Preferred] AWS certified solution architect/DevOps Engineer certification
• [Preferred] Kubernetes, Kafka certification
• [Preferred] Project/program management certifications

Education & Training

• [Required] BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent experience
• [Required] 5+ years of experience in building large scale, data-centric solutions
• [Required] 5+ years of experience (recent) participating on a DevOps team or as product owner for DevOps team

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.

Step 1
When you find a position you're interested in, click the 'Apply' button. Please complete the application and attach your resume.  

Step 2
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Step 3
If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location. 

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer