DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a talented DevOps Platform Engineer for one of our prestigious Client to join their dynamic Capital Markets IT Department

As a DevOps Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our infrastructure and automation tools. You will work closely with development teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of our applications. You will be a key contributor to our continuous improvement efforts, ensuring our environments are always reliable, secure, and efficient.

As a Developer, you will be responsible for design, develop and test based on requirements and design documentation. Develop automated systems to ensure reusability and efficiency and promote usage of testing methodologies aiming to identify and address defects early in the development lifecycle.

Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API's, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.

They are starting the decommissioning of their trading platform for their Treasury business to transfer this activity to their main front office target platform (Orchestrade or OT). Orchestrade is already implemented for other asset classes.

This project (decommissioning + migrate into Orchestrade) will migrate their worldwide cross asset treasury platform (all products) booked in several instances. They are creating a team in Singapore to take in charge some part of the project (e.g. Inbound and outbound flows of the platform for various systems or modules, OT API and format such as Json, Protobuf, CIBML…). Performance and latency of those interfaces will be key for the success of the project.

With strong interactions with their Paris Head office team, the developer would put in place the first foundations of a development team based in Asia in Singapore. The developer joins a future team of Front Office developers that will grow and will be key in the future for our technology hub in Singapore. The team will be fully allocated to this project and will be part of a multi sites project team.

Qualifications and Profile

Candidates should have minimum 5 years' experience in relevant activities.

Technical

• Good knowledge in UNIX platform and database management systems such as SQL, Oracle, Sybase.
• Strong Development background in C# .net a must have
• Strong exposure to Data Structures, Algorithms, collections, multi-threading and OO design patterns (Must Have).
• Good knowledge on web APIs, HTTP/HTTPS, REST, SOAP etc.
• Good to have automation frameworks and libraries knowledge.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Shell script and PowerShell.
• Good exposure to DevOps tools & technologies like Gitlab, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, and MQ Series and test automation tools like Selenium (and other test automation frameworks), cucumber etc.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services
• .net and Azure devops

Functional

• Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Treasury and Fixed Income Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)

Nice to Have

• Experience in supporting banking applications and trading systems
• Domain-Driven design and Microservices: Springboot

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members' skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player
• Ability and flexibility to work with cross-geographical teams operating in different time zones.