Job Description
A premier Energy company in the Houston, Texas area is seeking a DevOps SRE Engineer to support a mission‑critical, in‑house trading application that is used daily by traders across global markets. The DevOps SRE Engineer will be responsible for ensuring production stability, incident response, and overall platform reliability while working closely with traders and engineering teams to maintain uninterrupted trading operations. The engineer will support and maintain a live trading application used by multiple global trading desks and act as the first‑line technical partner for traders during production issues. The role involves diagnosing transaction failures and system incidents, coordinating with engineering teams to identify and resolve root causes, and driving DevOps best practices across supporting teams. In addition, the individual will continuously improve platform reliability, monitoring, and deployment processes while taking full ownership of high‑priority, trader‑facing systems. This position is required to sit onsite 3 days a week in Houston (either downtown or off i10 and Dairy Ashford). Depending on years of experience and technical ability, this position pays between $80-$100/hr.
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Required Skills & Experience
Strong DevOps / SRE experience in production environments
Experience supporting business-critical applications
Hands-on experience with:
- Terraform and Ansible
- Kubernetes / containerization
- CI/CD and automated deployments
Strong troubleshooting skills across:
- Java-based applications
- Python scripting
- SQL-backed systems
Cloud experience:
- Azure preferred (AWS acceptable with ability to ramp quickly)
Solid understanding of:
-Incident management
- Problem management
- Production support workflows
Strong stakeholder management and ownership mindset
Background in commodity trading, investment banking, or trading technology
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Experience working directly with traders
Monitoring and observability tooling experience
Knowledge of financial market workflows
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.