Senior DevOps Engineer

ICAP; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TP ICAP is seeking a business-minded DevOps leader to drive modernization across its platforms. You will design strategy, educate teams globally, and deliver measurable productivity gains through automated pipelines, testing integration, and better observability.

The role requires collaboration with developers/testers, a strong cloud and container toolkit, and experience scaling DevOps practices in a large financial/tech organization. Hybrid work is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years leading DevOps practice in financial/tech environments.
• Experience driving transformation programs lifting DevOps & SDLC automation.
• Proven track record delivering measurable productivity improvements via DevOps.
• Strong knowledge of modern DevOps & SRE principles.
• Hands-on with AWS cloud services and container tech.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement DevOps modernization strategy across platforms.
• Build internal tooling to automate development, testing, and production delivery.
• Automate release pipelines including testing to reduce manual overhead.
• Improve production stability through observability and process improvements.
• Support agile teams with standardized tools and automation for cloud/on-prem environments.
• Engage with vendors to accelerate tool adoption and best practices.
• Architect solutions using containers and serverless tech; manage environments.

Skills

DevOps leadership

AWS Cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Python

PowerShell

Java

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

SonarQube Nexus

Job description

Group Overview

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview

TP ICAP has undertaken an ambitious program of modernization and Engineering maturity over the next three years. The program is global and across all divisions and applications. There is a desire to move towards faster, safer and more automated product delivery at scale. A key part of this program is to deliver automated CI/CD pipelines, increase developer productivity, shift left many of the traditional practices and deliver more change into production more reliably.

The candidate will be leading this uplift and modernization of engineering capabilities around automation of development, testing and production delivery for TP ICAPs platforms. The candidate will provide hands‑on as well as thought leadership in designing this strategy as well as executing with a combination of internal and external teams over the next two years. The candidate is able to educate and influence application development teams globally to adopt new tools and practices, and also demonstrate measurable improvements in productivity, time to market and operational resiliency.

The role requires a business minded, highly collaborative, team‑focussed experienced DevOps engineer with exceptional communication skills to work with developers and testers in DevOps principles.

Role Responsibilities

• Design DevOps modernization and adoption strategy incorporating current industry practices and technologies
• Engineer internal tooling to implement automation in software development, testing and production delivery
• Reduce manual overhead involved in software releases by fully automating delivery pipelines that includes testing
• Improve production stability and resiliency through process improvement and adoption of better observability tools
• Support application teams in adopting a consistent set of tools, practices and technology to support an agile delivery model, including automation and incremental delivery of software in test and production environments running in the cloud and on premises
• To operate at scale, engage with vendors and service providers to bring best in class industry practices, speed up internal build as well as accelerate companywide adoption of new tools and practices
• Assist and architect where appropriate solutions using containerisation and serverless technologies
• Drive automation for environment management, logging and monitoring
• To fulfil any additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

Experience / Competences

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science
• Over 5-10 yrs experience in practising and leading DevOps practice in leading Financial or Technology companies
• Demonstrated experience leading and executing transformation programs involving significant uplift of DevOps and SDLC automation capabilities
• Experience delivering measurable process and productivity improvements via DevOps investments and driving a metrics driven practice of continuous improvement
• Intimately familiar with modern DevOps and SRE principles
• Deep and broad experience of AWS Cloud platform and services (Azue or GCP also considered)
• Previous experience in automating and integrating Testing into CI/CD pipelines (unit, integration, smoke testing)
• Previous experience working in development teams using Agile methodologies (e.g. SAFe) and practising Lean Delivery principles
• Knowledge of third‑party automation tools and technologies with relative pros and cons for all stages of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines and observability
• Platforms; Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu
• Proficiency in at least one of the following scripting languages; Python, GO, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy
• Programming language with a working knowledge in at least one of Java, C# (.NET Framework/Core), JavaScript (Node.js), Ruby, C++
• Developer tooling; Full stack CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQubeNexus
• Knowledge and working experience of containerising application components including writing DockerFiles and deploying to Kubernetes
• Deep understanding of pipelines as code
• Observability concepts and tooling; Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch

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Company Statement

We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That’s why we’re building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement.

Location

UK - City Quays 3 - Belfast