About Us
MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.
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Job Description
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Cloud Platforms team. This team is responsible for governing and managing our companies AWS footprint as well as operating critical systems such as SCM, CI/CD and other self-hosted solutions that enable our teams to be more productive.
In addition, the team is the driving force behind the company’s containerization strategy which spans from OnPrem, Hybrid all the way to AWS. We operate and build the foundations that enable our teams to build critical, low-latency trading applications which move billions of dollars each day.
In essence, our focus is on building a secure, reliable, and global platform which follows SRE patterns.
You should be passionate about technology, platform engineering, quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on solutions that will affect every engineer at MarketAxess by setting standards, building best practices, automation and ensuring operational excellence of existing and new systems.
We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning. We openly welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions and prior ways of working. Otherwise, how do we innovate, learn, and grow as a team and individuals?
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
This role is responsible for:
- Develop and scale engineering best practices across the organization through automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code
- Deliver the tooling and capabilities needed to enable application engineers to develop software according to our cloud first strategy
- Integrate and operate observability products that support compliance requirements and enable engineers to better understand the state of their services and apps in production
- Provide automated & developer-friendly cloud onboarding, account vending and management
- Ensure least privileged access to our cloud platforms to enable a zero-trust environment
- Partner and collaborate with IT Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Application, and Data Engineering teams
- Utilize Enterprise Architecture and Solutions Architecture patterns to develop a robust & scalable Cloud and DevOps platform which creates low friction for adoption and continuous improvement
- Focus on improving the user experience towards or cloud team and iteratively working towards higher degrees of usability and automation
Qualifications
- 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and automating infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds (AWS preferred, GCP, and Azure) using Infrastructure as Code
- 2 - 5 years of software development experience, with 2 years in Cloud and/or DevOps roles
- Familiarity with GitOps, Automation and DevSecOps Pipeline tools like Ansible, Maven, Gradle, Terraform, and CloudFormation
- Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD and experience with building and deploying pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions
- Real world experience with distributed systems, especially containers and Kubernetes; ideally experience with both cloud and/or on-premises Kubernetes deployments
- Exposure to managing a multi-account AWS Organization and leveraging SSO, IAM, networking (VPC) and policy based RBAC
- Strong knowledge in at least one language: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript
- Advanced level of Linux OS understanding and scripting skills
- Strong knowledge and experience with service-oriented architecture and event streaming (e.g., Confluent / Kafka) and caching platforms (e.g., Redis)
- Understanding of Agile software development practices and operational excellence
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
- Experience with self-hosting and/or managing systems like Bitbucket, Github, Gitlab, HashiCorp Vault, DataDog, Sonarqube
Languages
- English command written and oral a requisite