Manager, Pipeline Engineering

Manager, Pipeline Engineering
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Tysons Corner
Compensation: $160,000 - $190,000 / year
Description
Nodal Exchange, the largest power futures exchange in North America, is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management to participants. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world's largest sets of environmental and electric power futures and options contracts. All transactions on Nodal Exchange are cleared through its wholly owned subsidiary, Nodal Clear, using its award-winning portfolio-margining methodology. As leaders in innovation, Nodal Exchange and Nodal Clear have built in-house most of the trading and clearing platforms that fuel our business. Nodal Exchange is part of the EEX Group which is in turn part of the Deutsche Börse Group.
Nodal seeks talented and motivated applicants for the following hybrid role in Tysons Corner, VA (Washington, DC Metro area).
Key Responsibilities
Manager, Pipeline Engineering Key Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of "Developer Experience" at the company and ensure each software developer has the requisite tools and support to perform their duties
• Lead technology projects and a team of devops engineers with deep experience in distributed microservices
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies
• Participate in internal/cross-team technology discussions, mentoring employees
• Improve the state of Container Orchestration services including the use of Docker and Kubernetes
• Work with Configuration Management tools including Ansible and Terraform, and evaluate solutions in AWS
• Create KPIs for management to tell the story of how the team is doing at a given point in time and to extrapolate insights as to where the team's efforts are best spent
• Participate in code-reviews and change approvals for the Pipeline team
• Serve as an on-call escalation point for critical Production issues
• Maintain good relationships with Software Development teams and assist them with tooling

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 8 years of experience in DevOps Engineering
• At least 4 years of experience with orchestration using either Cloud technologies (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) or on-premise technologies (VMWare)
• At least 6 years of Unix or Linux system administration experience
• At least 4 years of experience in people management
• Solid grasp of Python scripting
• Familiarity with basic networking concepts
• Independent, organized, and structured
• Experience in Scrum methodology and Agile practices
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
• 2+ years of experience working with CI/CD pipelines
• 2+ years of experience working with Observability tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Preferred: (Optional)

• Experience with DevSecOps to an organization and integrating Checkmarx into the build pipeline
• Experience as a software developer and ability to understand and resolve pain points for developers
• Hands-on experience implementing processes or tooling to improve observability of various software states in Production

Salary Range: $160,000 - $190,000 per year base salary, when annualized
Pay Transparency Notice: The salary range is based on the D.C. metro area, the successful candidate's starting salary will vary depending on permissible, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to qualifications, skills, and experience. Nodal also offers a wide range of benefits and perks for full-time employees, which may include target bonuses.
Benefits
Nodal Employee Benefits and Perks:
Nodal Exchange, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, parental status, marital status, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, veteran status, physical or mental health, hairstyle, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or in any other terms and conditions of employment. Nodal Exchange is an E-verify participant.