Senior DevOps Engineer

Luxoft; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineering professional to drive the design, deployment and ongoing reliability of a high‑scale FX Swaps clearing platform. You will own CI/CD, containerized deployment, and secure, automated operations across on‑prem and cloud environments while coordinating with security and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes resilience, incident response, on‑prem to AWS migration, and rigorous governance in a regulated setting, requiring autonomous

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Experience operating within large enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience delivering large-scale transformation and migration projects.

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve security vulnerabilities in AWS infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Eng

SRE

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Ansible

Git

Terraform

Job description

Project description

The project is a strategic initiative to deliver a new FX Swaps clearing capability, enabling atomic processing of swap packages within a highly regulated, low-latency clearing environment.The platform operates under strict resilience, latency (≤10 seconds SLA), and regulatory (EMIR) constraints. The DevOps function will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, automation, continuous delivery, and operational resilience, while supporting a transition towards cloud-enabled infrastructure.This is a mission-critical system requiring Cat 5 resilience, robust CI/CD pipelines, strong monitoring, and disaster recovery capabilities.The solution will initially be deployed on-prem, with future migration to AWS (multi-AZ, multi-region).

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve security vulnerabilities in AWS infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support automated and secure software delivery.
• Deploy and manage applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Manage secrets, privileged access, and artifact repositories.
• Implement security, monitoring, logging, and disaster recovery best practices.
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to improve platform reliability and security.
• Support cloud migrations and infrastructure hardening initiatives.

SKILLS

Must have

• Experience
• 8+ years' experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Proven ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision. Someone with drive to actively pull work and deliver.
• Experience operating within large enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience delivering large-scale transformation and migration projects.

Linux & Infrastructure

• Expert-level Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.
• Strong Unix/Linux troubleshooting and support experience.
• On-premises infrastructure experience.
• Understanding of server lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, and operational support.

Scripting & Automation

• Strong Bash scripting capability.
• Strong Python development and automation skills.
• Experience automating operational, deployment, and infrastructure processes.
• Configuration management and infrastructure automation experience.

CI/CD & DevOps Tooling

• Significant experience with: GitLabo Jenkinso Ansibleo Git
• Designing, supporting, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
• Implementing DevOps best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Source code management and branching strategy expertise.

Troubleshooting & Operations

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting production and non-production environments.
• Ability to identify root causes and drive issues through to resolution.
• Experience supporting engineering teams with build, deployment, and platform-related issues.

Nice to have

Security / DevSecOps

• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
• Security-first mindset.
• Understanding of: Vulnerability management.
• Understanding of: Secrets management.
• Understanding of: Secure software delivery.
• Understanding of: Certificate management.
• Understanding of: Access control, authentication and authorisation, e.g. PAM and IDAM.

Infrastructure as Code

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
• Automation and platform provisioning expertise.

Networking & Security Concepts

• Understanding of: TCP/IP.
• Understanding of: DNS.
• Understanding of: Load balancing.
• Understanding of: Firewalls.
• Understanding of: TLS/SSL certificates.

Database Knowledge

• Good understanding of relational databases.
• Oracle administration or support experience highly desirable.
• Ability to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues.

Monitoring & Observability

• Experience with: Monitoring platforms e.g. DataDog.
• Experience with: Logging platforms.
• Experience with: Alerting solutions.