DevOps Engineer FTC - BlueCrest Capital Management

OpenTalent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in London is seeking a DevOps engineering specialist (12 month FTC) to own end-to-end delivery and operations of our DevOps environments. You will join a team modernising global infrastructure spanning on-prem and multi-cloud with Azure and AWS.

We value strong automation, Terraform, Ansible, containerisation, and experience with Kubernetes, Kafka and monitoring stacks to ensure reliability for trading systems.

Qualifications

• Very strong Azure and AWS skills.
• Very strong automation skills.
• Experience with Ansible/Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Proficiency in Python and containerisation.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and monitoring stacks.
• Familiarity with data centres, multi-cloud and hybrid architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery and operations of DevOps environments.
• Contribute to the technology modernisation journey across global data centres.
• Automate and standardise platforms for consistency, scalability and reliability.
• Work with Kubernetes, Kafka, ELK, Prometheus and related tooling to support trading systems.

Skills

Azure

AWS

Automation

Pull requests

Ansible

Terragrunt

Terraform

Python

Containerisation

AI infrastructure

DevOps

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

ELK

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

GitHub Actions

Nexus

Artifactory

Job description

Department Overview:

Our Technology Infrastructure team operates globally and is responsible for every aspect of the firm's hybrid platform. This ranges from our EUC/Office environments to Trading and Core service Co-Location Data Centres, and extends to Public Cloud, delivering top-tier technology services to a dynamic and demanding Trading organisation. In addition to meeting the round-the-clock operational demands of the platforms, we continuously evolve and transform our platforms to maintain a competitive edge that our business requires. We innovate to provide valuable solutions and leverage our skilled Technology teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements.

Role Overview:

The DevOps engineering specialist (12 month FTC) is a very technical, hands-on role, responsible for end to end delivery and operations of our DevOps environments. They will be joining the team as we lead an ambitious technology modernisation journey. We’re continuing to evolve our global infrastructure - spanning multiple global data centres - into a modern hybrid architecture that leverages both existing on-premise and multi-cloud environments and capabilities across Azure and AWS.

Over the past two years, we've modernised our core trading systems and introduced a range of key technologies including Kubernetes, Kafka, ELK, Prometheus, and more. As we expand and enhance the platforms, our focus is on automating and standardising to ensure consistency, scalability and reliability across all environments.

Experiences and Skills Required:

Must have:

• Very strong Azure and AWS skills
• Very strong automation skills
• Experience working with pull requests and peer reviews
• Experience with Ansible, Terragrunt and Terraform
• Python
• Very good understanding of containerisation technologies
• Very good understanding of AI related infrastructure and DevOps processes.

Nice to have, but willing to learn otherwise:

• Kubernetes (on-prem, VMware, EKS, AKS)
• Test automation (Terratest, Terraform Test, Molecule, PyTest, JUnit)
• Linux/Windows administration, automation and networking
• CI/CD and build tooling (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Nexus, Artifactory)
• Observability and telemetry (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, ELK, Tempo, Jaeger)
• Public cloud platform engineering (Azure, AWS)
• Data streaming and caching technologies (Kafka, Redis)
• Working knowledge of Java and/or C#
• Chaos engineering and resilience testing

About You:

We’re looking for a very strong individual contributor, passionate about emerging technologies, and constantly improving their environment. The environment is fast moving with minimal process, so you’ll need to be comfortable supporting live systems, critical to the hedge funds operations, with minimal guardrails.