Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.
Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.
The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.
With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.
For more information visit www.marex.com
Purpose of Role:
The Platform Engineer helps the team create a platform where building, testing, and the releasing of software can happen rapidly, frequently, and reliably. The role is a DevOps advocate who works closely with development and operations teams improving the collaboration whilst removing any impediments through automation, improved tooling, or processes. The role is a key role in a multi-disciplined team building and operating a new security conscious cloud environment.
Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights, and analytics.
The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Reporting to the COO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.
IT runs Marex’s enterprise-wide services to end users and actively manages the firm’s infrastructure and data to provide and accelerate business value. A Data team enables the firm to leverage data to increase productivity and improve business decisions, as well as maintain data compliance. The Infrastructure group delivers operations and engineering across Infrastructure Operations, Network, Communications, Endpoint and Platform Engineering teams with a key focus on Infrastructure as Code/automation & innovation. IT also includes the global IT Service Desk providing support and self-service to business users across Marex, and our Service Management team that runs core ITSM processes and develops our departmental tooling.
The Platform Engineering function strives to automate infrastructure management and provide Marex Technology team with self-service tools and workflows with the aim to streamline software delivery and accelerate the pace of innovation.
***This role is based at the Chicago, IL office and requires at least 3 days per week in the office***
Responsibilities:
- Build and operate a platform used by development and operations teams to provision their infrastructure and run their applications in the cloud and on premise.
- Perform weekend work as necessary to carry out maintenance, participate in on-call duties, and respond to support escalations to ensure the operational health of the platform.
- Support any teams using the platform as required.
- Deliver continuous integration and development platform that integrates seamlessly with the development tools already in use and ensure its effectiveness to deliver software rapidly.
- Improve the developer experience, facilitate developers in building cloud infrastructure, and deploying their applications free of impediments.
- Develop policies, standards, and guidelines for IAC and CI/CD that teams can follow.
- Propose and implement workflow and toolchain improvements to automate repetitive tasks.
- Ensure security and governance are considered a priority by applying security practices as a part of the SDLC and developing and enforcing policies.
- Collaborate with teams on architectural design and cloud best practices.
- DevOps advocate to educate and promote DevOps practices across technology.
- Stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling.
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
- Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
- At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct.
- To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.
- To escalate risk events immediately.
- To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
Competencies, Skills and Experience:
Competencies
- Demonstrates curiosity.
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field desired
- At least minimum five (5) years of experience in Financial Services industry. Ideally would like ten (10 years of experience).
- Experience working closely with development and operations teams throughout the SDLC, implemented CI/CD effectively and deployed into Cloud environments with IAC.
- Experience in deploying and running applications securely in AWS or Azure, familiarity with cloud native tooling and cloud security best practices.
- Experience building and operating containerized workload and used serverless technology
- Proficiency in scripting with programming languages Python or PowerShell.
- Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible.
- Experience monitoring in the cloud using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana
- Broad technical knowledge with a background in Linux Engineering or Development/Automation.
- Experience with fast-moving Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Salary Range: $100,000 to $180,000 per year and eligible for discretionary bonus.
Marex Benefits for 2026
Company Values:
- Be collaborative - by working together across the organization, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients
- Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
- Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.
- Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.
- Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.
Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.
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