Senior DevOps Engineer (Electronic Trading) at Neev, London Area, £Contract Rate

We are seeking a DevOps / Integration Specialist to join our Global Equities Electronic Trading team. This role is pivotal in setting up and maintaining a continuous integration environment and providing robust testing solutions for our electronic trading applications including Smart Order Router, Market Access, DMA/Sponsored DMA, Risk Controls and Internal Matching Engine.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and implement a framework for continuous integration environments, driving its adoption and evolution.
• Automate testing processes and any manual workflows to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Integrate with various trading front office, middle office and back office system
• Manage release processes, provide environment support, and offer production support as needed.
• Conduct client, venue certification, and connectivity for various exchanges, markets, and dark pools.
• Test and validate individual applications and end-to-end integration.
• Works very closely with stake holders and clients and update, configure, change the trading application and downstream peripherals.
• Carry out Client , Venue Certification and Connectivity for various exchanges/markets/dark pools
• Working with various teams including Application Development, Business Analyst & Operations

Required skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced knowledge of programming language(s) - Unix scripting, Python, and Java programming languages for Automation, Monitoring and Surveillance
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Scripting skills to automate day-to-day development and testing and integration tasks (Shell/Perl/Python)
• Creating and automating Test Strategies/Test Plans based on functional Testing and non-functional requirements and Executing them
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred skills:

• Electronic trading exposure with knowledge in trading protocols such as FIX is desirable
• Knowledge of Equities Trading Stack – Order Management Systems, ALGO, Smart Order Routers, Dark Pools, Equities exchange protocols
• Knowledge of kdb/q is a plus