Senior DevOps Engineer | Front Office Trading Systems

The ECI Group's Gulf Coast Professional Services Network is seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to support mission-critical global derivatives trading systems within Shell's Trading & Supply organization. This hands-on engineering role focuses on maintaining production stability, supporting exchange connectivity, resolving complex technical incidents, and improving the performance and reliability of front-office trading applications. This is Houston based contract position has an estimated duration of 8 weeks from November 9, 2026 - December 31, 2026. Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.

Candidate's should bring deep experience in commodity trading or capital markets, FIX protocol engineering, real-time market data distribution, and production application support. The ideal candidate is a senior, hands-on trading technology engineer who combines deep front-office production support experience with FIX connectivity expertise, strong scripting capabilities, and the ability to troubleshoot and improve complex, business-critical trading systems.

Key Responsibilities
Trading Systems & Production Support

• Maintain the stability, availability, and performance of global derivatives trading applications.
• Provide rapid incident response and troubleshooting for business-critical trading systems.
• Support front-office trading workflows, including order capture, execution, allocation, and settlement.
• Work directly with traders, developers, and infrastructure teams to resolve production issues.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation to support trading operations.

DevOps & Application Engineering

• Improve application deployment processes, production monitoring, and system reliability.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL, or similar technologies.
• Identify recurring incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable technical solutions.
• Support engineering improvements, application releases, and technical debt reduction.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to improve operational efficiency.

Exchange Connectivity & Market Data

• Support FIX protocol connectivity, exchange integrations, and vendor certification activities.
• Troubleshoot trading connectivity, messaging, and network communication issues.
• Support EMS/OMS platforms and third-party trading technologies.
• Maintain and troubleshoot real-time market data distribution systems.
• Support market data feeds, multicast messaging, and time-series analytics platforms.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in commodity trading, capital markets, or investment banking technology environments.
• Extensive experience supporting front-office trading applications and production environments.

• Strong hands-on FIX protocol engineering experience, including exchange connectivity and vendor certification.
• Understanding of global futures exchanges and exchange-traded derivatives workflows.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, C#, or SQL.
• Experience with application deployment, production monitoring, incident response, and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of EMS/OMS platforms, including Trading Technologies, NYFIX, Bloomberg, TradingScreen, or comparable systems.
• Strong understanding of network protocols, messaging systems, and trading application integrations.
• Ability to work directly with traders and technical teams in a high-pressure production environment.
• Willingness to participate in global on-call support.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of front-office application support and vendor management
• Experience supporting real-time market data distribution platforms, including RTDS, DACS, ADH, or ADS.
• Experience with time-series analytics technologies such as kdb+ or Shakti.
• Knowledge of multicast traffic management, message queuing, and TCP/IP troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg, Refinitiv, and liquidity aggregation platforms.
• Experience supporting algorithmic trading platforms.
• Knowledge of algorithmic trading regulations, audit requirements, and RTS 6 compliance.

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