Platform Engineer

Company: Marex Spectron
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world's major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.Purpose of Role:The Platform Engineer helps the team create a platform where building, testing, and the releasing of software can happen rapidly, frequently, and reliably. The role is a DevOps advocate who works closely with development and operations teams improving the collaboration whilst removing any impediments through automation, improved tooling, or processes. The role is a key role in a multi-disciplined team building and operating a new security conscious cloud environment.The Platform Engineering function strives to automate infrastructure management and provide Marex Technology team with self-service tools and workflows with the aim to streamline software delivery and accelerate the pace of innovation.Responsibilities:

• Build and operate a platform used by development and operations teams to provision their infrastructure and run their applications in the cloud and on premise.
• Perform weekend work as necessary to carry out maintenance, participate in on-call duties, and respond to support escalations to ensure the operational health of the platform.
• Support any teams using the platform as required.
• Deliver continuous integration and development platform that integrates seamlessly with the development tools already in use and ensure its effectiveness to deliver software rapidly.
• Improve the developer experience, facilitate developers in building cloud infrastructure, and deploying their applications free of impediments.
• Develop policies, standards, and guidelines for IAC and CI/CD that teams can follow.
• Propose and implement workflow and toolchain improvements to automate repetitive tasks.
• Ensure security and governance are considered a priority by applying security practices as a part of the SDLC and developing and enforcing policies.
• Collaborate with teams on architectural design and cloud best practices.
• DevOps advocate to educate and promote DevOps practices across technology.
• Stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling.
• Ensuring compliance with the company's regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with Marex's Code of Conduct.Competencies, Skills and Experience:Competencies:
  • Demonstrates curiosity.
  • Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
  • Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
  • Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.Skills and Experience:
    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field desired.
    • At least five (5) years of experience in Financial Services industry.
    • Experience working closely with development and operations teams throughout the SDLC, implemented CI/CD effectively and deployed into Cloud environments with IAC.
    • Experience in deploying and running applications securely in AWS or Azure, familiarity with cloud native tooling and cloud security best practices.
    • Experience building and operating containerized workload and used serverless technology.
    • Proficiency in scripting with programming languages Python or PowerShell.
    • Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible.
    • Experience monitoring in the cloud using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana.
    • Broad technical knowledge with a background in Linux Engineering or Development/Automation.
    • Experience with fast-moving Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban.
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Salary Range: $100,000 to $140,000 per year and eligible for discretionary bonus.Company Values:Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:Respect: Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.Integrity: Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do - our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.Collaborative: We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.Developing our People: Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to "grow our own" and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.Adaptable and Nimble: Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client's various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.
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