Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

What You'll Do:

As Associate Principal Devops Engineer, you will develop and maintain the continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) environment for the clearing development team to provide a stable, performant pipeline conforming to industry best practices and corporate standards relating to resilience, security, and auditability. Collaborate with developers, testers, application security, and product owners to deliver stable, automated pipelines for building, testing, verifying, and deploying applications in an agile environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

• Analyze and clearly document the requirements, purpose, and design of existing and proposed pipelines

• Maintain existing pipelines according to the corporate standards for CI/CD and security

• Adapt and conform third-party pipelines to corporate standards for CI/CD and security

• Develop new pipelines as required for applications and processes to support automation within the clearing development team

• Work with other teams to evolve and maintain consistent best practices in CI/CD and security.

• Participate regularly with development and testing team meetings to understand and improve the stability and efficiency of CI/CD process

• Primary responsibility is for support of stability and integrity of the CI/CD environment for the clearing development team.

• Actively and concisely communicate expectations for development deadlines and any issues that may affect deadlines

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• NA

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.

• 5+ years of experience in software development and build management.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, regulated environment and follow best practices and process control to ensure traceability and auditability of all stages of development, integration, and delivery

• Experience in Java, Python, shell (Golang, Groovy, Scala helpful)

• Proficient with automated build environments (Jenkins, CircleCI, Bamboo, Github Actions, Artifactory,…)

• Proficient in containerized deployment (Kubernetes, Docker, Harness, Rancher, Terraform, Ansible, AWS…)

• Experience with distributed message brokers (Kafka, IBM MQ)

• Proficient with Git version control and branching standards

• Experience in Kanban and Agile methodologies

• Posses a continuous improvement mindset

• Able to evaluate complex situations and break them down into resilient, interoperable components

Technical Skills:

• Java 11+ proficiency

• Gradle/Jenkins/Groovy proficiency

• Experience building multi-module software projects in Jenkins/Groovy

• Working knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes.

• Experience with pipeline optimization, profiling, and memory management.

• Experience with AWS foundational services, VPC, EC2, S3, Security groups, AWS CLI, and IAM.

• sbt golang-build experience a plus

• Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ

Education and/or Experience:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required.

Certificates or Licenses:

• CI/CD tool certification a plus

• 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 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

Benefits

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

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

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 on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

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.

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
You will receive an email notification to confirm that we've received your application.

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. 

For more information about OCC, please click here.

OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer