DevOps Engineer

The Team:

Software Engineer role is a key leadership position within Global Equity Derivatives technology, responsible for servicing top revenue generating equity derivatives units worldwide (NY/TOR/LON/LATAM). Ideal candidate will have worked in financial industry, deploying in-house & vendor platforms on to public cloud, managed devops team, and directly supported Trading/FO users within capital markets.

Responsibilities:

• Successful candidate will be responsible for directly supporting Equity Derivatives sales and trading units across geographies and ensures equity derivatives platform availability.

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to create a multi-year roadmap for cloud deployments, and end-to-end system integrations.

• Responsible for Devops team - managing, tracking, resolving and communicating production backlog & priority to stakeholders and reducing production incidents and system downtime.

• Responsible for platform management, monitoring and alerting end-users on system issues, meeting agreed SLAs, and complying with data storage and archival policies.

• Maintain system statuses, and complying with regional regulatory requirements for production systems – Release/Incident managements/disaster-recovery etc.

• Responsible for creating availability matrix for real-time platform, and monitoring.

• Work with Enterprise teams to understand security postures, vulnerability management, infrastructure provisioning - database/network, and application log management.

• Create documentation/Confluence pages covering architecture, release notes, security and operational readiness.

• Work with PMO to forecast infra, license and other operational cost.

 

Qualifications:

• Candidate must have a minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience in supporting Front-office trading and sales teams across worldwide, deploying and maintaining large scale applications with complex integration, and have cloud-based deployment experience.

• Key skills – Capital market support, preferably in equity derivatives and notes and have worked on Azure Cloud, Linux, K8, any provisioning tools, Shell, Python, NoSQL.

• 2+ years of experience supporting public cloud hosted vendor SaaS Platforms.

• 2+ years of experience in automating deployment process and working with CI/CD tools.

• 4+ years of experience with monitoring tools – Grafana/Prometheus, ELK stack etc.

• The role requires leadership skills, hands-on technical experience, and a can-do approach towards environment automation / management and continuous improvement for efficiency and cost effectiveness.

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are essential

• Resolve complex infrastructure and application deployment issues.

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always available service.

• Proficient with source code versioning tools (Git) and build tools (Gradle).

 

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!

• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create best customer experiences

• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world

• Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does

• Onsite cafeteria

• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), generous vacation, personal & sick days, personal development funding, maternity leave top-up, parental leave and much more.