Full-Time
Automation Engineer
Intercontinental Exchange
10,001+ employees
Operates global exchanges, data, and connectivity
No salary listed
Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Deep expertise in Python, Ansible, and n8n.
- Experience integrating REST APIs, deploying Infrastructure-as-Code, and building orchestrated workflows across enterprise storage and backup environments.
- At least 3 years of relevant professional experience.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud storage platforms including AWS S3, Azure Blob, and GCP Storage.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code for storage automation.
- Strong SQL skills for automation involving databases or configuration management databases.
- Experience with Grafana, Tableau, or similar tools for automated dashboards.
- Design and develop enterprise-grade Python automation frameworks, modules, and reusable libraries for storage and backup provisioning, lifecycle management, telemetry ingestion, and API integrations.
- Integrate Python with REST APIs exposed by storage vendors, monitoring tools, configuration management databases, and internal services.
- Perform complex data analytics and transformation logic to drive intelligent automation decisions.
- Architect and maintain Ansible automation for configuration management, provisioning, compliance, and change execution.
- Build Ansible collections, modules, roles, dynamic inventories, and reusable playbooks for enterprise storage and storage area network infrastructures.
- Integrate Ansible with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitLab CI.
- Apply Ansible best practices including idempotency, YAML structuring, and Ansible-lint compliance.
- Architect advanced n8n automation pipelines connecting APIs, databases, webhooks, and storage platforms.
- Build multi-step workflows for alert enrichment, automated responses, ticketing integration, and data orchestration.
- Implement error handling, retries, conditional branches, and webhook-driven flows.
- Integrate n8n with Python scripts, REST endpoints, and event-driven triggers.
- Optimize workflow performance, scalability, modularity, and maintainability.
- Build automation pipelines for provisioning, monitoring, compliance, reporting, and remediation workflows.
- Implement full lifecycle orchestration for block, file, and object storage platforms.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code for storage-related tasks using Ansible, Terraform, and native vendor APIs.
- Automate operational tasks including host registration, zoning, data collection, capacity forecasting, and system health checks.
- Develop self-healing automation using event-driven triggers and artificial intelligence-based decision engines.
- Use Git, branching strategies, pull request workflows, and code reviews to maintain production-ready automation repositories.
- Integrate automation components with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.
- Build automated test harnesses for scripts, APIs, and workflows using pytest or similar frameworks.
- Maintain end-to-end observability using logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Integrate large language model-based tools to generate, validate, or optimize code and configuration.
- Build artificial intelligence-assisted anomaly detection using log or telemetry data.
- Develop artificial intelligence-augmented workflows in n8n or Python for intelligent alerting and decision-making.
- Create pipelines that continually ingest, normalize, and present storage telemetry data.
- Generate automated dashboards using Grafana, Tableau, or similar tools.
- Experience with agent frameworks, embeddings, or vector databases.
- Background in workflow engines such as Rundeck.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) operates a global network of regulated exchanges and clearinghouses, plus market data and connectivity services. Its products include real-time and historical data across equities, fixed income, and commodities, as well as trading, clearing, listings, and connectivity to its venues; it also offers mortgage technology and fixed income execution. ICE differentiates itself through an integrated ecosystem that combines multiple major exchanges, a comprehensive data suite, and specialized services under one umbrella. Its goal is to enable efficient, transparent, and trusted global markets by connecting participants, providing data, and supporting trading and clearing across many asset classes and geographies.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
Founded
2001
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q1 2026 net revenues hit $3.0 billion, up 20% year over year.
- August 2026 futures open interest reached 16.8 million lots, with 14% ADV growth.
- ICE Digital Trust and tokenization moves target crypto custody and collateral workflows.
What critics are saying
- MarketAxess closing in first-half 2027 needs regulators; antitrust scrutiny can delay synergies.
- Mortgage Technology produced a Q1 2026 operating loss, exposing ICE to rate-cycle weakness.
- Perpetual-futures rule changes and AI data commoditization threaten exchange and market-data economics.
What makes Intercontinental Exchange unique
- NYSE, Brent, and ICE Futures franchises create unmatched regulated market-infrastructure scale.
- ICE controls proprietary fixed-income pricing data and clearing, shielding margins from pure-exchange rivals.
- 2026 MarketAxess acquisition and GPU futures extend ICE across execution, data, and derivatives.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↑ 16%1 year growth
↑ 16%2 year growth
↑ 2%Intercontinental Exchange reported strong August operating metrics, with double-digit year-over-year growth in average daily volume and open interest across major asset classes. The company achieved record interest rate futures open interest of 16.8 million lots on 31 August. Agriculture and metals contracts saw particularly strong growth, with average daily volume rising substantially year over year and open interest increasing more than half. Overall, August data showed 14% average daily volume growth and 19% open interest growth. The company's narrative projects $12.3 billion revenue and $4.6 billion earnings by 2029, requiring 5.7% yearly revenue growth. Analysts' estimates vary, with pessimistic projections showing revenue reaching $12.4 billion with flat earnings near $4.0 billion.
Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the New York Stock Exchange, has signed agreements with tZERO to build infrastructure for a tokenised securities platform. tZERO will serve as design partner for digital transfer-agent and broker-dealer systems supporting on-chain settlement. ICE will invest in tZERO's latest funding round and license its blockchain patent portfolio, which spans 23 patent families and 103 patents covering token lifecycles, compliance-aware transfer logic, and smart contract frameworks. tZERO is expected to seek approval as a digital transfer agent on ICE's NYSE-affiliated Digital Trading Platform. The companies will also evaluate using tZERO's tokenised assets for collateral management across ICE's clearing houses. The partnership marks tZERO's deepest tie to a major exchange operator. No timeline for regulatory approval or platform launch was disclosed.
Martha A. Tirinnanzi, director of Intercontinental Exchange, sold 1,340 shares of common stock on 26 August 2026 for approximately $216,000, according to an SEC filing. The sale was executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted in May 2026. Following the transaction, Tirinnanzi retains direct ownership of 3,747 shares, including 1,698 restricted stock units scheduled to vest on 18 May 2027. This represents a 0.0007% ownership interest in the company. Intercontinental Exchange operates regulated exchanges and clearing houses globally, generating revenue through transaction fees, market data licensing, and clearing operations. The company has a market capitalisation of $91.0 billion.
Pershing Square Holdings has taken a new position in Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a financial services and market infrastructure provider. The hedge fund has followed the company for nearly a decade before investing. ICE's exchanges segment generates nearly 70% of earnings, anchored by its energy franchise with revenues two-and-a-half times larger than its nearest competitor. The company holds approximately 90% market share in Brent crude futures. Over the past five years, the exchanges segment grew revenue 8% annually and profits 10%, with margins expanding to 75%. The firm also operates Fixed Income & Data Services and Mortgage Technology segments, generating just under 20% of earnings with 45% and 41% profit margins respectively. On 18 August 2026, ICE traded at $156.18 per share with a market capitalisation of $87.68 billion.
Jeffrey Sprecher, founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, purchased a failing company from Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy for $1,000 in 1997, despite Buffett having invested $35 million in it. Sprecher, who had no Wall Street experience, used it to build what would become Intercontinental Exchange. Starting in 2000 with nine employees in Atlanta, Sprecher lived in a 500-square-foot studio flat and drove a used car whilst building the business. He handled menial tasks like taking out rubbish and answering phones. Today, Intercontinental Exchange has a market capitalisation of $85 billion and employs over 12,000 people. The company has owned the New York Stock Exchange for more than a decade. Sprecher's net worth now stands at $1.2 billion.