Deployment Engineer - Kubernetes & OpenShift

Ocean Red; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension contribution

Private medical

Life cover

Income protection

Enhanced holiday accrual

Enhanced parental leave

Nursery scheme

EV salary sacrifice

Job summary

Ocean Red is seeking a Deployment Engineer in the UK to own container deployments for live trading venues, turning releases into repeatable deployments and shaping deployment tooling with the operations and engineering teams.

You will write platform-native deployment scripts for OpenShift/Kubernetes, work on pre-go-live validation, then collaborate with client engineers on site or remotely until go-live, and participate in design sessions to settle load balancing, failover and certificates.

Qualifications

• Deployed multi-service containerised apps on OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Strong Linux administration and TLS/mTLS troubleshooting.
• Outstanding client-facing communication and travel willingness.

Responsibilities

• Own container deployment for each client and release.
• Write platform-native deployment scripts; prove on pre-go-live systems.
• Work with client engineers on site or remotely until live.
• Participate in design sessions to settle load balancing, failover and certificates.
• Collaborate with ops after go-live; join a senior delivery team of Linux engineers.

Skills

Container deployment

OpenShift / Kubernetes

Linux administration

Client-facing

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker/Podman

RHEL/Rocky Linux

Git

GitLab CI

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Job description

Company

Established capital markets technology vendor, building and running trading infrastructure for regulated venues

Position

Deployment Engineer - Professional Services

Impact

Owning container deployment for every client, turning each release into a repeatable deployment, shaping product design before the code gets written

Travel

International client visits, sometimes at short notice

Hybrid

3 days a week in the office

Benefits

An annual bonus on company and individual performance, a strong employer pension contribution, private medical, life cover, and income protection. Your holiday allowance grows the longer you stay, and the enhanced parental leave is well above market. A nursery scheme and an EV salary sacrifice scheme come on top.

The Role

Your work here gets used in production, at live trading venues.

This business builds the core trading platform its clients run their markets on. It has since added a full set of containerised operations tools on top, and live clients are already taking them. Nobody owns getting those tools deployed yet. You will.

You’ll take each release and its notes, write the platform-native deployment, prove it on internal pre-go-live systems, then work with the client's own engineers on site or remotely until it’s live.

You’ll also sit in design sessions before development starts, so load balancing, failover and certificates get settled early. You won’t run the CI platform (a DevOps team does that), and once a platform is live, ops handles the tickets.

You’ll join a small, senior delivery team. Your colleagues are Linux engineers who've spent their careers in high-frequency trading.

What makes you a great fit:

• You've deployed multi-service containerised applications on more than one platform, writing the OpenShift or Kubernetes manifests yourself.
• You have strong Linux administration skills (RHEL or Rocky), and you can trace a failed deployment through service dependencies, startup order and TLS/mTLS certificates.
• You like being in front of clients: leading a setup session with their engineers, explaining an issue to a non-technical stakeholder, and travelling to international client sites at short notice.

The broader technical team uses: OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker/Podman, RHEL/Rocky Linux, Git, GitLab CI, Terraform, Ansible, AWS.

Interview Process | CV Review > Screening call with us > Submission > Intro with the hiring manager > Technical interview > Final onsite > Offer

*** You must be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this opportunity; unfortunately, no sponsorship is available for this role***