Manager, Software Engineering (AWS DevOps)

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.

What We Offer

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 3 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

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Summary

Using a high degree of independent judgement for directing, managing, planning and administrating a DevOps AWS team. Identify areas for improvement, allocate resources, and hire where appropriate to insure successful support of the development teams.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Translate middle and senior management directives into workable policies
• Monitor project status and take remedial action on projects behind schedule and/or over budget
• Provide subject matter expertise for ongoing support of third-party tools like Kafka, Artifactory, Terraform, Apigee. 
• Run the incident and problem management process for non-production environments.
• Resolve complex support issues in non-production environments.
• Have an understanding of Cloud Native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS.
• Assist production support and development staff in debugging environment defects.
• Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to cloud native applications
• Write complex automation scripts using common automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Direct work of staff and conduct appropriate personnel actions (hiring, promotions, terminations, etc.) when necessary
• Communicate and advise staff on administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities, and methods and software change issues
• Prepare and conduct employee reviews as well as monitor progress to satisfy employee management goals
• Promote employees development by conducting career-planning sessions and scheduling employee training classes, conferences, and seminars
• Ensure that proper funding is added to the departmental budget

Qualifications

• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate staff
• Demonstrate strong confidence in abilities and knowledge.
• Ability to work well in crisis situations.

Technical Skills

• Expert understanding of:
• Systems administration and change management practices
• Message-oriented technologies such as Kafka
• Internet / Web based technologies
• ITLT Best Practices
• Scripting and coding
• Network technologies
• CI/CD tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, and GIT
• Cloud native applications, including Terraform experience
• Technologies used to support microservices
• Encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI Infrastructure management)
• Security controls as applied to software technologies

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a related area
• 7-10 years of related experience
• Minimum 7 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment.
• Minimum 3 years experience working with cloud native applications
• Minimum 3 years experience managing people and projects

Certificates or Licenses

• Cloud Certification a plus