Senior DevOps Engineer — Kubernetes & Hybrid Cloud

Aquis Exchange; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquis Exchange in London is seeking a Cloud & DevOps Engineer to help shape, optimise, and scale our hybrid infrastructure. You will join a focused DevOps team working across trading platforms, cloud environments, and on‑prem systems, delivering reliable, scalable solutions.

You will contribute to automation, container orchestration, and GitOps practices, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to drive operational excellence and robust deployments.

Qualifications

• Senior level designing, implementing and operating Kubernetes/OpenShift across hybrid on‑prem and multi‑cloud environments.
• Advanced DevOps including CI/CD, GitOps workflows, container image management, monitoring and automation.
• Strong Linux system administration for OpenShift deployments.
• Extensive scripting/automation with Terraform, Python, Bash, Ansible.
• Strong experience with Git, GitLab and container‑native deployment pipelines (Helm, ArgoCD).
• Strong understanding of core networking: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, container networking.
• Hands‑on with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift); cloud equivalents (ECS/ECR, GKE) a plus.
• Knowledge of infrastructure design patterns, automation best practices, and config management in containerised environments.
• Database familiarity (MySQL, QuestDB, Elasticsearch).
• Strong communication skills—clear, detailed, pragmatic.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate hybrid infrastructure using Terraform, focusing on container platforms and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Improve automation across containerised, on‑prem, and cloud environments using Ansible, Python, and related tools.
• Collaborate with Development and Infrastructure teams to productionise new technologies and workflows.
• Guide architectural decisions with emphasis on container orchestration, automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Support build pipelines, CI/CD systems, OpenShift/Kubernetes workloads, and developer tooling.
• Assist Linux engineering with deployment, configuration management, and scale‑out operations.
• Lead capacity planning and ensure scalability across Dev, QA, Test and Production.
• Maintain high quality system and process documentation.

Skills

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD & GitOps

Linux administration

Terraform/Python/Bash/Ansible

Git/GitLab pipelines

Networking basics

Containers orchestration

Infrastructure patterns

Database familiarity

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

GitLab

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

Aquis Exchange in London is seeking a Cloud & DevOps Engineer to help shape, optimise, and scale our hybrid infrastructure. You will join a focused DevOps team working across trading platforms, cloud environments, and on‑prem systems, delivering reliable, scalable solutions.

You will contribute to automation, container orchestration, and GitOps practices, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to drive operational excellence and robust deployments.