Software Engineer (DevOps) in Heredia at TradeStation

Job Description

Software Engineer (DevOps)
Heredia, Costa Rica
 
#WeAreTradeStation
 
TradeStation is an on-line brokerage firm seeking to level the playing field for self-directed investors and traders, empowering them to claim their individual financial edge.  At TradeStation, we're continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible, encouraging out-of-the-box thinking and relentless search for innovation.  We have built a team of amazing people who work together in a high performance culture to provide our clients with exceptional products and services.  We offer a collaborative and flexible work environment, competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and a generous PTO policy.
 
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
 
The team members are responsible for building platforms that our applications run on with world-class supporting tools, services, processes, and systems required to meet our internal objectives. Additional responsibilities include:

• Standardizing tooling
• Centralize & simplify 24x7 monitoring
• Paved Road Development
• Conform to company policies, compliance, and security objectives
• Cloud Cost Savings
• Education and Training
• Operational Support
• Architectural Task Force
• Fully automate infrastructure

• Work in a cross-functional and self-organizing team in a DevOps environment
• Participate in Agile planning and execution
• Automate processes and implementations
• Open to learn and bring to the team new technologies

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
 
Required:

• Good oral and written communication skills
• Collaborates well in a team environment
• Willingness to learn new programming languages and technologies
• Python and/or Golang experience
• Strong in at least 1 modern programming language
• Command line scripting and automation (i.e. Bash, Powershell, etc)
• Cross-platform development experience (Ubuntu/Linux, OSX, Windows, etc)
• Object Oriented Programming and SOLID Principles
• Practical asynch and multithreading programming experience
• Basic understanding of network topologies and TCP/IP protocol

Preferred:

• Cloud architecture and deployment (AWS or Azure)
• Hands-on Docker or Kubernetes experience
• Configuration management and deployment automation tools (e.g. CI/CD Pipelines, Octopus, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, DSC, VSTS, Microsoft Release Management)
• IT Security knowledge
• A champion for quality with experience in 1 or more test-frameworks (nUnit, pytest, Mocha, etc)
• HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 protocol experience
• Brokerage/trading platform experience