Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business Segment Overview

Retail: Empower individual investors – and yourself – in the world of retail through a range of different financial products rooted in innovation and market intelligence. From FX and CFDs to precious metals, master an exciting world of wealth management tools.

Technology Ecosystem: Birds eye view of the technology one will be exposed to in role.

• Front-End:Ansible/Octopus
• Back End:Python
• Architect:Apache,Kafka,Redpanda
• Cloud:Azure

Primary duties will include: 

• Contribute in design, understanding the architectural tradeoffs including Scalability, Resiliency, High Availability, Storage and Security Perform capacity planning and solution review related to the Messaging and Streaming environment.
• Adopt and promote modern automated “Self Service” paradigms
• Perform proof-of-concept work for new tools and components
• Turn proof-of-concept work into Production grade systems
• Provide end-user support to Dev teams and implement change requests
• Prioritize across various tasks, manage changes in daily workload
• Concisely document instructions, user guides and policies in Confluence or in source control
• Guide fellow engineers on stack standards and efficient utilization
• This role includes out of office hours support rota
• Providing support for our US based workloads. This position demands ability to adapt to US time zone work schedule.

To land this role you will need:

• Proven history of implementation, configuration, and support of a modern Messaging platform and their ecosystems (RH AMQ, ActiveMQ Artemis, IBM MQ, Solace)
• Proven history of implementation, configuration, and support of a modern Streaming platform and their ecosystems (Apache Kafka, RedPanda, Apache Pulsar)
• Ability to use programming languages (e.g. Python, PowerShell) to create production-grade APIs and integrations
• Working knowledge of Linux environment
• Experience with GIT, CI and CD
• Willingness to learn and adopt to innovative technologies
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills. Forward thinking, self-starter, able to work independently
• University / College bachelor level (or equivalent) degree

What makes you stand out:  

• Configuration Management / Deployment tools such as Ansible, Octopus
• Experience with Cloud Providers (preferably Azure)
• GitOps, CI / CD mindset
• Networking knowledge
• Kubernetes and Helm Knowledge
• Ansible / Configuration as a Code
• Willingness to learn and adopt to innovative technologies