Production DevOps Engineer

Camber Morris - Quantitative Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Camber Morris - Quantitative Talent is seeking a Production DevOps Engineer to own mission-critical trading environments. You will bridge development and operations, ensuring peak performance, absolute stability, and continuous availability.

You will manage deployments, automate pipelines, and drive IaC using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Linux tuning. The ideal candidate has strong automation and container orchestration experience in financial services and real-time trading settings.

Qualifications

• Proven DevOps or SRE in high-availability production environments.
• Trading/financial services background required.
• Advanced automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes in production.
• Linux kernel tuning and performance troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Manage deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of low-latency production trading systems.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid releases.
• Analyze and tune system latency and network configurations.
• Lead incident root-cause analyses and on-call rotation.
• Architect and maintain IaC with modern configuration tools.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Go

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

Every millisecond counts when trading at scale. We are seeking a talented Production DevOps Engineer to take ownership of our mission-critical trading environments. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations, ensuring our high-frequency trading platforms, data pipelines, and production systems maintain peak performance, absolute stability, and continuous availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage Production Environments: Oversee the deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of our low-latency, high-throughput production trading systems.
• Automate Infrastructure & Pipelines: Build and optimize continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to enable rapid, safe releases of trading software.
• Optimize System Performance: Continuously analyze and fine-tune system latency, network configurations, and resource utilization to maintain a competitive market edge.
• Incident Response & Reliability: Lead root-cause analyses for production incidents, implement automated self-healing mechanisms, and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect, provision, and maintain immutable infrastructure using modern configuration management tools.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven DevOps Expertise: Strong track record as a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Systems Engineer supporting high-availability production environments.
• Trading or Financial Services Background: Demonstrated experience supporting real-time, mission-critical systems within a trading firm, hedge fund, or investment bank.
• Advanced Automation & Scripting: Mastery of Python, Bash, or Go for system automation, tooling development, and process optimization.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Deep practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and managing containerized applications in production.
• Linux Systems Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of Linux kernel tuning, system internals, networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP), and performance troubleshooting.