Production DevOps Engineer

Camber Morris - Quantitative Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Camber Morris - Quantitative Talent in London is seeking a Production DevOps Engineer to own mission-critical trading environments. You will bridge development and operations to ensure low-latency platforms, data pipelines, and production systems stay highly available and stable.

You will automate pipelines, optimize performance, participate in on-call rotations, and apply IaC to provision immutable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-availability production environments.
• Background in real-time trading or financial services.
• Proficient in Python, Bash, or Go for automation.
• Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes and production orchestration.
• Strong Linux kernel tuning and networking skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of low-latency trading systems.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid releases.
• Analyze latency, network configs, and resource usage to maintain edge.
• Lead root-cause analyses and implement automated self-healing.
• Architect and maintain immutable infrastructure with IaC.

Skills

DevOps

Trading/Finance

Automation Scripting

Docker & Kubernetes

Linux Networking

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.