Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

What You'll Do:

This candidate will work with the DevOps team in supporting the development efforts of the OCC Risk framework. 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.

• Drive technology best practices across the SDLC, particularly build and deployment process automation

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure DevOps methodologies are used to their best potential

• Promote self-service build and deployment processes through process automation to enable rapid iterations of development team functions

• Design and implement process improvements across the build, deployment, and monitoring of OCC systems

• Assist in designing process improvements across the build, deployment, and monitoring of Kubernetes systems

• Support the automation and configuration of Kubernetes, AWS, and other systems to support the SDLC and DevOps methodologies

• 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.

• 5+ years ~ of experience on similar DevOps platforms

• A deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, techniques, and automation frameworks

• Knowledgeable about industry best practices regarding deployment patterns and architecture principles

• Demonstrated ability to deliver on workflow automation principles such as event-driven or waterfall mechanisms

• Experienced with the Agile process and understanding of how successful teams communicate and operate

Technical Skills:

• Python coding experience required, experience writing code unit-tests and following best practices

• Jenkins job setup and execution analysis – including Splunk log review for Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

• Ability to manage Kubernetes deployments with helm charts, using continuous deployment tools like Harness.io

• Ability to manage AWS deployments using Terraform, Ansible, or similar Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degrees in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field. Or equivalent work experience

Certificates or Licenses:

• Relevant industry certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate or similar are 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.

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

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