Devops Engineer

Quick Facts

Senior DevOps Engineer supporting Front Office Financial Markets technology in a global banking environment.

Description

Support and enhance mission-critical electronic trading platforms within a low-latency business-critical trading ecosystem. Collaborate with Quant Developers, Front Office stakeholders, engineering teams, and infrastructure specialists to improve platform reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Support and enhance mission-critical electronic trading platforms.
• Design, build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Develop automation solutions for application deployment and operational activities.
• Manage software delivery from source control through to production deployment.
• Partner with development teams to implement DevOps best practices.

Operational Excellence

• Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Investigate production, infrastructure and performance-related issues.
• Enhance monitoring, observability and platform stability.
• Drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency.

Project Delivery

• Support platform modernisation programmes.
• Contribute to strategic infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Participate in major data centre migration projects.
• Work on new development and quant-led technology initiatives.

Stakeholder Interaction

• Engage directly with Front Office users, Quant Developers and engineering teams.
• Translate business challenges into practical technical solutions.
• Provide technical recommendations and challenge assumptions where appropriate.
• Build strong relationships across business and technology teams.

Requirements

Essential

• Strong DevOps or Platform Engineering experience.
• Linux / Unix administration and troubleshooting expertise.
• CI/CD pipeline design, implementation and support.
• Azure DevOps (ADO).
• YAML pipeline development.
• Scripting experience using Python, Shell or Bash.
• Ansible, Puppet or similar automation/configuration management tools.
• Production support and incident investigation experience.
• Root cause analysis and problem-solving capability.
• Jenkins, Git, Jira and Confluence.
• Release and deployment management experience.
• Strong understanding of on-premise infrastructure environments.

Desirable

• Financial Markets, Investment Banking or Electronic Trading experience.
• Experience working with Quantitative Development teams.
• Low latency systems knowledge.
• Azure and/or AWS exposure.
• Monitoring tools such as Splunk, ELK Stack or Prometheus.
• Data centre migration experience.
• Background in SRE, Production Support or Infrastructure Engineering.

Benefits

Not specified.