Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Devops

DevOps Engineer

This candidate will be joining the DevOps team and supporting the development efforts of the OCC Clearing Development. The team strives for goals that refine and automate the processes needed to support the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Enable development teams to self-service build and deployment processes through process automation.
• Design and implement process improvements across the build, deployment, and monitoring of Clearing applications.
• Support the maintenance and configuration of development environments in Kubernetes and AWS.
• Develop and support terraform, ansible, Harness, and Jenkins jobs used to instantiate and manage development environments.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

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

Technical Skills:

Programming/scripting experience in languages like Java, Bash, Python or Go is required. Knowledge and experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools (examples - GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Compose, K8s). Java development experience is desirable. Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. Experience with cloud technologies and migrations is required. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc. Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, etc. Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics. Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc. is required. Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC. Experience following Git workflows.

Education and/or Experience:

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

Certificates or Licenses:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level is a plus

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 theocc.com.

Benefits:

• 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
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Compensation:

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted.

Salary Range $121,500.00 - $194,800.00

Incentive Range 8% to 15%

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.