Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes, On-Prem, Observability

DV Trading LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DV Trading LLC is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact team that builds and operates the infrastructure powering our trading systems in London. You’ll own Kubernetes at scale, on-prem observability, CI/CD, and workflow orchestration from day one.

Bring 5–8 years of DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience, deep Kubernetes expertise, strong IaC and automation skills, and superb communication to collaborate with trading desks and developers who depend on the

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Kubernetes: Deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Observability: Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting.
• GitOps and CI/CD: Experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar GitOps tools.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and/or Ansible for provisioning and configuration management.
• Linux systems: Strong fundamentals — systemd, networking, storage, performance troubleshooting.
• Programming: Go or Python for automation, tooling, and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes platform operations and evolution: Cluster lifecycle management via Cluster API, fleet-wide upgrades, bare metal provisioning, CNI networking, storage, autoscaling, and disaster recovery planning.
• Observability: Operate and scale our on-prem observability stack — Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting. Drive adoption by onboarding teams, building dashboards, tuning alerts, and scaling ingestion for growing workloads.
• CI/CD and GitOps: GitLab pipelines, ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployments, Artifactory for artifact management. Build reusable CI components, improve secrets integration, and support trading desks onboarding to the platform.
• Infrastructure automation and tooling: Build and maintain automation for provisioning, configuration management, and self-service tooling that enables teams across the firm to move faster without depending on DevOps for every change.
• Platform adoption and support: Work directly with trading desks and development teams to onboard them to the platforms we build. Write runbooks, contribute to documentation, and help build a sustainable support model as the platform scales.

Skills

Kubernetes

Observability

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Linux fundamentals

Go

Python

Communication

Tools

Cluster API

ArgoCD

Flux

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

DV Trading LLC is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact team that builds and operates the infrastructure powering our trading systems in London. You’ll own Kubernetes at scale, on-prem observability, CI/CD, and workflow orchestration from day one.

Bring 5–8 years of DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience, deep Kubernetes expertise, strong IaC and automation skills, and superb communication to collaborate with trading desks and developers who depend on the