DevOps Engineer

Pharomanagement; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Pharo Management in London seeks a DevOps Engineer to build and maintain infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and monitoring for trading, research and operations systems. This hands-on role offers ownership and impact, collaborating with software, data, and infrastructure teams.

The successful candidate will enjoy working with a curious, methodical mindset and contribute to reliability and repeatability across environments. Full-time role in London.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in DevOps, platform, infra, or software eng roles.
• Experience with Git and standard branching workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, especially GitHub Actions.
• Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform).
• Experience with a major cloud platform (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing).
• Clear written and verbal communication for cross-team collaboration.
• Scripting ability in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for internal apps.
• Support day-to-day requests from development teams and debug issues.
• Extend cloud and on-prem infrastructure via infrastructure-as-code.
• Operate monitoring, alerting, and logging; help resolve incidents.
• Write scripts to automate operational tasks.
• Improve software delivery practices across the tech team.
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical services.

Skills

Git

CI/CD tooling

Scripting

Communication

Cloud fundamentals

Networking basics

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

SQL Server

Job description

DevOps Engineer

Who we are:

Pharo Management is a leading global macro hedge fund with a focus on emerging markets. Founded in 2000, the firm has offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, and currently manages $8 billion in assets across four funds. Pharo trades foreign exchange, sovereign and corporate credit, local market interest rates, commodities, and their derivatives. We trade in over 70 countries across Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America as well as developed markets. Our investment approach combines macroeconomic fundamental research and quantitative analysis.

Pharo employs a diverse, dynamic team of 140 professionals representing over 20 nationalities and 30 languages. We have a strong corporate culture anchored in core values such as collaborative spirit, creativity, and respect. We are passionate about what we do and are committed to attracting the best and brightest talent.

This is a great opportunity to join a market leader and contribute to our continued success.

Job description:

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our technology team in London. This role helps build and maintain the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and monitoring that our trading, research, and operations systems run on. It is a hands‑on position with a broad remit, offering real ownership and visible impact on how the business runs.

The role sits alongside software developers, data engineers, and infrastructure staff, with support from senior engineers as the successful candidate develops. We are looking for someone curious and methodical, who enjoys understanding how systems fit together and takes pride in making things reliable and repeatable rather than merely working.

Responsibilities will include:

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for internal applications, working with developers to make releases faster, safer, and more automated.
• Support day‑to‑day requests from development teams, helping developers debug build, deployment and environment issues.
• Support and extend our cloud and on‑premise infrastructure, including provisioning environments and managing configuration through infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Help operate monitoring, alerting, and logging so that issues are caught before they affect users, and contribute to investigating and resolving incidents when they occur.
• Write scripts and small tools to automate manual and repetitive operational tasks.
• Contribute to improving software delivery practices across the technology team.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation, providing out of hours support for DevOps related issues impacting critical services.

Required qualities and skills:

• 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or software engineering role, including internships and placements.
• Experience with Git and standard branching and code review workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, particularly GitHub Actions.
• Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc).
• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code tools, particularly Terraform.
• Experience working with a major cloud platform (Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls).
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain technical issues to colleagues from non‑technical teams.
• Scripting ability in at least one of Python, PowerShell, or Bash.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• Working knowledge of Linux and/or Windows Server administration.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Application Insights, or Sentry.
• Some SQL and exposure to relational databases, particularly SQL Server.
• Awareness of security and compliance considerations in a regulated financial services setting.

Work status and location:

Full time in London