Lead DevOps Engineer

Broadridge Financial Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadridge Financial Solutions in London seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and support scalable trading infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and fast delivery, with hands-on leadership across DevOps, platform engineering, and observability initiatives.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, automate provisioning and deployment, and collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams to improve platform readiness and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams and mentoring engineers.
• Strong background in Linux/Unix administration, scripting (Python, Bash).
• Proven CI/CD experience with Jenkins or GitLab and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Hands-on cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure) with IaC and configuration management.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and observability platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and highly available trading infrastructure.
• Provide technical direction, mentorship, and hands-on contribution across DevOps, automation, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Build and improve automated CI/CD pipelines for Java and Python apps across environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration, and database schema across cloud and on-prem.
• Support production systems with high availability, DR, incident response, patching, and change management.
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with orchestration platforms; drive IaC for consistency.

Skills

Leadership

Agile

Jira

Linux

Python

CI/CD

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Kubernetes

AWS

Networking

Observability

AI Tools

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab

Git

Job description

## Lead DevOps EngineerApplylocations: London - 12 Arthur Streettime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: JR1084671At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.Join us as a **Lead DevOps Engineer** supporting low-latency trading infrastructure and business-critical financial systems across cloud and on-prem environments.This hands-on technical lead role focuses on designing, automating, and supporting highly available platforms in partnership with engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.It is an opportunity to improve reliability, scalability, security, and delivery while advancing DevOps, platform engineering, observability, and AI-enabled infrastructure tooling.**Responsibilities*** Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and highly available trading infrastructure.* Provide technical direction, mentorship, and guidance to engineers while remaining an active hands-on contributor across DevOps, automation, infrastructure, and platform engineering initiatives.* Build and improve automated CI/CD pipelines for Java and Python applications across multiple environments.* Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration, database schema creation, and operational workflows across cloud and on-prem platforms.* Support production systems with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, incident response, vulnerability management, patching, and change management.* Containerize applications and support deployments using container orchestration platforms.* Partner with development teams to understand application codebases and architecture, improving deployment, monitoring, and operational readiness.* Use infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Chef, or Ansible to drive consistency and repeatability.* Troubleshoot complex deployment, performance, networking, and infrastructure issues, with an emphasis on preventing recurring manual fixes through automation.* Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational workflows.* Identify, design, and help implement AI-enabled operational capabilities for infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, and platform engineering.* Contribute to the strategy for safe, practical, and secure adoption of AI across infrastructure and DevOps practices.* Lead and participate in Agile delivery practices, using Jira to manage priorities, plan work, track delivery, communicate dependencies, and provide clear status across infrastructure and application initiatives.* Collaborate with global teams, vendors, and stakeholders on support issues, release schedules, system administration needs, and platform improvements.* Establish and promote best practices for CI/CD, observability, reliability, cloud operations, and infrastructure automation.## Requirements* **Leadership & Delivery** + Hands-on technical lead experience. Mentoring and guiding engineers. + Agile delivery experience, including planning, prioritization, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, dependency management, and delivery tracking across distributed teams. + Experience using Jira or similar tools. + Strong communication skills and the ability to drive issues to resolution with technical and non-technical stakeholders.* **Systems & Automation** + Linux/Unix administration, operational support, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. + Scripting/programming in Python, Bash, or similar. + CI/CD pipeline experience with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar. + Containerization and artifact publishing. + Infrastructure as code and configuration management with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar.* **Infrastructure & Operations** + Strong understanding of networking, routing, and traffic flow across distributed systems. + Knowledge of high availability, resiliency, capacity, and latency considerations. + Experience supporting customer-facing, low-latency, high-availability, or other business-critical platforms. + Monitoring, logging, and observability experience, including tools such as Splunk or similar. + Cross-functional collaboration with application, network, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.* **Cloud & Containers** + Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms. AWS EKS is a plus. + Hands-on AWS and hybrid cloud experience, including EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, and EFS. + Experience with cloud or hybrid hosting environments; Azure is a plus.* **Domain Experience** + Experience supporting financial systems, trading platforms, market data platforms, feeds, or similar low-latency infrastructure. + Knowledge of unicast and multicast networking in low-latency or market data environments.* **Modern Tooling** + Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar. + Experience contributing to AI-enabled automation, operational workflows, or infrastructure strategy.* **Additional** + Proven success working in a global, matrixed organization. + Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate, RHCE, PSM, CSM, or ITIL are a plus.## ## Technology Environment* Cloud and Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, EKS, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, EFS, hybrid hosting* Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Bash, Python* Containers and Orchestration: Docker and other container platforms; Kubernetes and EKS exposure preferred* CI/CD and Source Control: Jenkins, GitLab, Git* Monitoring and Operations: Splunk or equivalent observability tools* AI-Enabled Engineering: AI-assisted development tools, AI-enabled operational workflows, and AI infrastructure strategy* Operating Systems: Linux/Unix**Hybrid Flexible at Broadridge**We are made up of high-performing teams that meet in person to learn and collaborate as needed. This role is considered **hybrid**.#LI-Hybrid#LI-LM1We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.**Use of AI in Hiring**As part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers, and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.