Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

What You’ll Do

Provide subject matter expertise for ongoing support of applications deployed to OCC’s non-production AWS environments and supporting 3rd party applications.  Lead, Create and maintain a reliable testing application framework to enhance the stability and easy troubleshoot of the new environments created and the existing ones

This role requires a deep understanding of DevOps practices, leadership skills, Testing, automation and expertise in various tools and technologies. You will be working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, using cutting-edge tools and cloud technologies. Manage day to day activities when called upon.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

• Identify, analyze, and automate repetitive or manual tasks across infrastructure and deployments.

• Ability to diagnose, resolve, and prevent issues that impact on the applications, functionality and user experience

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to support agile development and rapid releases.

• Script solutions using Bash, Python, or similar tools to streamline DevOps processes.

• Advocate for and enforce DevOps and security best practices in infrastructure and deployment processes.

• Collaborate with development teams to identify opportunities for automation and implement solutions to improve quality and efficiency.

• Act as a mentor and thought leader on DevOps culture, encouraging process ownership and continuous improvement across teams.

• Lead automation efforts in an Agile development environment, including planning, estimating, and reporting automation progress

• Participate in code reviews, defect triage, and other software development activities

• Continuously research and evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to improve automation strategies and tools

• Work with the DevOps team to integrate automation tools into the CI/CD pipeline and automate deployment processes

• Understand Cloud Native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS.

• Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to cloud native applications.

• Perform other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• N/A

Qualifications:

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

• Excellent Analytical and problem-solving skills. Oriented on Quality and process improvements

• Understanding minimizing resource consumption, Run time and scalability on automation processes

• Ability to work independently and proactively identify solutions

• Ability to work with management to prioritize tasks.

• The ability to lead by example, promote ownership, and drive a culture of automation and reliability.

• Ability to work under minimal supervision.

• Flexibility to be on call from 5 PM to 7 AM for 3 months per year.

• Good written and oral communication skills.

Technical Skills:

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer with a strong automation background

• Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitHub, Jenkins - Groovy, K8s, helm, etc.).

• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning.

• Proficiency in Linux administration and shell scripting (Bash, Python, or similar).

• Solid understanding of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.).

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, testing concepts, and Agile development practices, including Scrum and Kanban

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a related area

• 7-10 years of related experience

  • Minimum 5 years experience on scripting/devOps Automation

  • Minimum 3 years experience working with AWS services

  • Minimum 3 supporting and maintaining  

Certificates or Licenses:

• Cloud Certification 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.