Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps
The Options Clearing Corporation | |
parental leave, tuition reimbursement, 401(k), remote work
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United States, Texas, Dallas | |
Jan 01, 2026 | |
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Duties: Guide the implementation using CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes environment. Direct review, configuration, and execution of Terraform Ansible automation pipelines delivered by product teams. Guide the setup of common infrastructure platforms like multi-region Kubernetes and Kafka cluster. Elicit requirements for sizing of application deployments to manage expected workload. Implement a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant, auto scaling Kubernetes infrastructure and Micro service Container Orchestration. Manage the application services in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) using Jenkins and ansible automation deployment, leveraging expertise in EKS deployment strategies like rolling update, canary update, recreate, blue green and ramped. Analyze user requirements, determine operational feasibility, and evaluate problem definition and proposed solutions, leveraging expertise in Amazon web services (AWS) platform and services like Elastic search, Elasticache, EKS, EC2, Route 53, Autoscaling, and Elastic Load Balancer. Monitor and tune the performance of applications working with product teams. Confer with product teams leads and practitioners to create deployment plans. Confer with the Enterprise Architecture and Product Architecture teams to devise implementation details. Promote standards across application configuration towards the highest security. Collaborate with access management and security teams on setting up roles and permissions for systems and users using least privilege strategies. Collaborate with the integration/performance testing team to leverage integrated release tests in Integration/Release Acceptance environments. Collaborate with operations and enablement teams to deliver, configure, and test applications. Collaborate with production controls teams on monitoring, failover, and logging. Provide guidance to systems and DevOps engineers for building highly performant environment. Ideate and implement infrastructure failover scenarios. Perform deployment of applications in VM based as well as container-based deployments. Develop documentation for operations of SDLC pipelines and practices to enable technical support of applications and infrastructure. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. Education & Experience Required: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related and five (5) years of experience as a software developer, software programmer, systems architect, or related. Special Skills Required: Must have work experience with each of the following: 1) Implement a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant, auto scaling Kubernetes infrastructure and Micro service Container Orchestration; 2) Manage the application services in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) using Jenkins and ansible automation deployment, leveraging expertise in EKS deployment strategies like rolling update, canary update, recreate, blue green and ramped; and 3) Analyze user requirements, determine operational feasibility, and evaluate problem definition and proposed solutions, leveraging expertise in Amazon web services (AWS) platform and services like Elastic search, Elasticache, EKS, EC2, Route 53, Autoscaling, and Elastic Load Balancer. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. Salary $158,100 - $194,800 Apply: Apply online at www.theocc.com. No calls. EOE. 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. Benefits A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information. Compensation
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 For more information about OCC, please click here. OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer | |
parental leave, tuition reimbursement, 401(k), remote work
Jan 01, 2026