AWS DevOps Engineer - FX Trading House - Up to £90k - Hybrid, LDN

VirtueTech Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FX trading company is looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to enhance its trading infrastructure. You'll be responsible for architecting and optimizing cloud environments while working with advanced technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. With a hybrid working model, this role focuses on improving resilience, performance, and reliability of trading systems. Applicants should have strong CI/CD pipeline knowledge and experience in AWS and containerization. The salary is up to £90k, and the office is located in Covent Garden.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Solid understanding of AWS and other cloud platforms.
• Experience in scripting and automation using relevant languages.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize AWS cloud environments for trading.
• Implement Docker containerization strategies across environments.
• Perform root cause analysis for incidents in Docker and Kubernetes.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines proficiency

AWS knowledge

Containerization expertise

Scripting with Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Monitoring and logging systems experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

AWS DevOps Engineer - FX Trading House - Up to £90k - Hybrid, LDN

As an AWS DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role within a fast‑paced FX trading house, operating at the intersection of cloud engineering, DevOps excellence, and electronic trading infrastructure. Working in a business specialising in risk management and hedging solutions across foreign exchange and commodity markets, you will architect, automate and optimise a high‑availability AWS cloud environment that underpins OTC derivatives trading, brokerage execution, and real‑time risk management platforms. This directly enables pricing, execution, and market responsiveness. The project focuses on modernising and scaling the firm’s FX infrastructure on AWS, enhancing pricing engine performance, liquidity venue connectivity, automated trade capture, and real‑time exposure management.

In the role of AWS DevOps Engineer, you will design, implement, and manage DevOps‑focused Docker containerisation strategies that enable consistent, portable deployment of applications across multiple environments. You will create and integrate hybrid cloud solutions, enabling seamless communication among on‑premises infrastructure, the AWS cloud platform, and containerised environments.

From an AWS DevOps perspective, you will enhance SQL Server redundancy and resilience by exploring new strategies and leveraging licensing options to improve database performance and availability. This role offers the opportunity to stay up to date with the latest DevOps tools, technologies, and best practices, while influencing the adoption of modern approaches across the business. You will also perform root cause analysis for critical incidents within Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters, implementing preventative measures to strengthen platform stability and reduce future risk.

📍 Hybrid working: 3 days a week in the office, Covent Garden

• Strong proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, including tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Solid understanding of AWS and other cloud platforms (Azure, GCP), containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell, and familiarity with configuration management.
• Proven expertise in monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack), with the ability to optimise system reliability and performance.
• Deep knowledge of version control best practices, release management, and AWS DevOps principles in a fast‑paced environment.

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AWS DevOps Engineer - FX Trading House - Up to £90k - Hybrid, LDN