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

SKILLS

Must have

• - 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

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

Experience