Murex DevOps

Project Description:

DXC Luxoft has one of the world's leading Murex practices. We are a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered over 200 successful Murex projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance. Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry would be of high interest to us.

Responsibilities:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and operating automated platforms that enable reliable, secure, and scalable delivery of the MX platform across SaaS, cloud, and on-premise environments.

You will play a key role in CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, environment management, and production reliability, working closely with development, QA, and client-facing teams.

Key Responsibilities:

1. CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple environments.
• Ensure pipeline stability, performance, and reliability, minimizing build failures and delays.
• Implement automated build, packaging, and deployment processes.
• Enforce version control best practices (branching strategies, tagging, artifact management).
• Support release cycles, including validation, smoke testing, and rollback strategies.

2. Automation

• Plan & Code Templates stored in Git repositories alongside application code, allowing template updates to be version-controlled, code-reviewed, and tracked.
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and upgrades.
• Build reusable automation components to improve scalability and consistency.
• Reduce manual operations through process automation and scripting.

3. Environment & Platform Management.

• Deploy and manage MX environments across development, testing, and production stages.
• Handle environment lifecycle:
• Provisioning.
• Configuration.
• Upgrades & patching.
• Decommissioning.
• Ensure environments are standardized, reproducible, and compliant.
• Support multi-client and multi-environment setups in SaaS or hybrid models.

5. Monitoring, Observability & Reliability (SRE mindset)

• Implement and maintain:
• Monitoring.
• Logging.
• Alerting.
• Ensure end-to-end observability of platforms and pipelines.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on incidents.
• Contribute to improving system reliability, SLAs, and operational KPIs.

7. Data & Environment Operations

• Manage environment data lifecycle:
• Data provisioning.
• Data masking for non-prod environments.
• Data sampling and reduction.
• Support database operations:
• Migration.
• Sanitization.
• Reconciliation.
• Ensure compliance with security and data governance requirements.

8. Incident & Support Management

• Act as a technical escalation point for environment and platform incidents.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and environments.
• Coordinate with support and product teams for resolution.
• Ensure proper documentation and knowledge sharing.

9. Collaboration & Delivery Enablement

Collaborate with:

• Development teams (integration into CI/CD pipelines).
• QA teams (test automation and environment consistency).
• Product teams (release readiness and constraints).
• Client teams (technical coordination and delivery).
• Contribute to smooth delivery across project lifecycle.

10. Continuous Improvement & Best Practices

• Promote DevOps principles:
• Automation-first.
• Continuous integration & delivery.
• Shift-left testing.
• Identify inefficiencies and propose improvements.

Contribute to:

• Internal tooling.
• Documentation.
• Standardization efforts.
• Share knowledge and support onboarding of new team members.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Strong working knowledge of Murex Configuration and Environment management.
• Strong knowledge of scheduler software (e.g. Tidal, Autosys, JAMS, ...etc.).
• Good understanding of MXTest.
• Good product knowledge/understanding in IRD, CRD, EQD, FXD.
• Good understanding of Workflows, Operations, Fixings process, Confirmations, and Trade Life Cycle.
• Strong functional and technical understanding of Murex.
• Good knowledge of the different post-trade interactions between the various actors of capital markets including service providers.

Must:

• Previous experience, min 2yrs, with Murex Environment management.
• MXTest Module (a plus).
• Must have strong personality, logical and analytical skills.
• Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner and self-starter.
• Possess good verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have strong organization skills.
• Good SQL, Unix, Scripting, Sybase and Oracle skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

Required Skills & Experience:

• 1-2 years of experience in DevOps, CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience in production or client-facing environments preferred.

Technical Skills:

• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps.
• Version control systems: Git (advanced usage).
• Proficiency in template engines, specifically FreeMarker (FTL).
• Scripting: Shell, Python, Groovy.
• Operating systems: Linux/Unix.
• Cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), Azure/GCP is a plus.
• Databases: RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, or similar).
• DevOps & Platform Expertise.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in complex environments.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools.
• Exposure to SaaS / distributed architectures.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in production environments.
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Team-oriented with strong collaboration mindset.
• Proactive and continuous improvement mindset.