DevOps Engineer

Consortia; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm in London is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves overseeing the cloud-based trading infrastructure, developing automation tools, and ensuring systems' security within a dynamic startup environment. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience in software development, production management, and critical cloud technologies, especially in a systematic trading context.

Qualifications

• Production experience with AWS cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Managing and maintaining the production trading infrastructure.
• Automating real-time and batch jobs.
• Ensuring the security of all systems.

Skills

Cloud technologies

Automation

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Database administration

Monitoring frameworks

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

GitHub

Postgres

MySQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

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Are you excited by the prospect of working in a well-supported startup environment where your creativity, experience, and problem-solving skills can truly make an impact? Do you have a passion for blockchain and crypto and want to work in an exciting and dynamic environment?

If you are ready for that next step, the position below is for you!

I have an excitingDevOps Engineerposition partnered with an investment firm based in London, which operates leading quantitative investment strategies.

Seasoned executives found the business with extensive experience in finance, blockchain, and technology who share a deep passion for Web3 and NFT technology.

You will oversee their cloud-based trading infrastructure and develop tools to enhance and expedite research processes. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, production management, and cloud technologies within a systematic trading environment.

Responsibilities:

• Managing and maintaining the production trading infrastructure.
• Automating real-time and batch jobs.
• Providing ad-hoc and industry-standard development and testing tools to the development team.
• Ensuring the security of all systems.
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues, such as server downtime, network connectivity problems, and software errors.
• Monitoring system performance and proactively identifying and addressing any bottlenecks or issues that could impact trading operations.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Production experience with cloud technologies, ideally AWS. Certifications alone are not enough.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet is essential, as is a passion for automation.
• Hands-on experience in building CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub.
• Practical experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and familiarity with GitOps processes.
• Experience in database administration, preferably Postgres and MySQL.
• Experience with monitoring frameworks such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Consortia is a specialist recruitment agency with consultants focused on global roles within the UX, Product, Data, and Engineering markets. If the "DevOps Engineer" role doesn't fit your preferences but you are open to exploring other opportunities, feel free to send your CV so we can match it with better-suited roles in our system.