Theocc

Theocc

Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

Chicago - 125 S Franklin · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$141k-$233kDetected 30 days ago
PythonJavaGoScalaGitSQLNoSQLAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDJenkinsLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringKafkaCybersecurityIncident Response

About the role

  • To be considered for this position, applications and resumes are accepted only through our careers site by directly applying to the posted job.
  • We do not accept unsolicited resumes or sales solicitations from staffing agencies.
  • Any OCC employee wishing to submit a referral must do so through their Workday account.

Responsibilities

  • Successful candidate will collaborate with various product, infrastructure, operations, security, and production control teams to elicit and fulfill technical requirements, while driving site reliability, system observability, and operational excellence across the platform.
  • Elicits requirements for application deployment and sizing to manage expected workloads
  • Leads blameless post-mortems and drives resolution of action items to reduce repeat incidents
  • Designs and implements observability frameworks covering metrics, logs, and distributed tracing across all platform services
  • Drives toil reduction initiatives by identifying and automating repetitive operational work
  • Partners with product teams to embed reliability requirements and non-functional requirements (NFRs) early in the software development lifecycle
  • Confers with product team leads and practitioners to create deployment and reliability plans
  • Collaborates with access management and security teams on setting up roles and permissions using least privilege strategies
  • Collaborates with integration/performance testing teams to leverage integrated release testing in the Release Acceptance environment
  • Collaborates with production controls teams on monitoring, failover, logging, and alerting strategies

Requirements

  • The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
  • [Required] Understanding of Kanban and/or Agile methodologies
  • [Required] Familiarity with SRE principles as defined by Google SRE practices (error budgets, toil elimination, reliability hierarchy)
  • [Required] Able to succeed in a fast-paced environment with frequent changes
  • [Required] Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences
  • [Required] Self-starter - takes initiative to research, learn, and deliver
  • [Required] Team player - humble, collaborative, and focused on making the entire team succeed
  • [Required] AWS EC2, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Hashicorp Vault
  • [Required] Observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or equivalent
  • [Required] Incident management platforms and on-call tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, OpsGenie)
  • [Required] Self-starter - takes initiative to research, learn, and deliver; anticipates the play
  • [Required] Setting up platforms in AWS for high-performance requirements
  • [Required] Broad experience in API-based development
  • [Required] Git and Artifactory for sourcing artifacts

Nice to have

  • [Required] SQL and NoSQL databases, in-memory data stores
  • [Required] Java/Python/Scala/Golang software development
  • [Required] Fluent in industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles
  • [Required] Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
  • [Required] Ability to define and document architecture strategies, designs, and requirements across all enterprise architecture domains
  • [Required] Ability to define service-based, component architectures and demonstrate visualization of enterprise architecture concepts
  • [Preferred] AWS Certified Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
  • [Preferred] Kubernetes, Kafka certification

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
  • $140,800.00 - $232,500.00
  • Incentive Range

Benefits

  • A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness.
  • Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
  • 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

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Equal opportunity

  • OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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