Senior Kubernetes Engineer

MarketAxess Holdings Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in the UK is looking for a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to enhance their containerization strategy across multiple clouds. This role involves improving the usability of Kubernetes, delivering necessary infrastructure, and collaborating with various teams to drive innovation. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience with Kubernetes and public cloud services. The company offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package, making it an ideal place for passionate technology professionals.

Benefits

Free daily lunch and office snacks

25 days annual leave plus 2 charity days

Two week bonus holiday after 5 years

Comprehensive benefits package including medical and pension

Tuition Assistance and Professional Training

Qualifications

• 5+ years of operating Kubernetes in Production.
• 3+ years of designing, building, deploying, and automating infrastructure in Public Clouds.
• Real world experience with distributed systems and experience with both cloud and on-premises Kubernetes deployments.

Responsibilities

• Enhance platform capabilities such as Kubernetes as a Service.
• Build and deliver needed infrastructure for application engineers.
• Improve user experience for Kubernetes users and work towards higher usability and automation.

Skills

Operating Kubernetes in Production

Infrastructure as Code

Distributed systems

GitOps

Automation and DevSecOps Pipeline tools

Linux OS understanding

Monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)

Agile software development practices

Education

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

EKS

Service Mesh (e.g., Istio)

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to join our team. We are the driving force behind the company's containerization strategy which covers private & public cloud (AWS). Our goal is to operate and enhance a modern cloud-native platform that spans across clouds and simplifies infrastructure needs for our teams. We operate and build the foundations that enable our teams to build trading applications which move billions of dollars each day. You should be passionate about technology, specifically Kubernetes, quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on solutions that will affect our mission critical workloads by setting standards, building best practices, automations and ensuring operational excellence of existing and new systems. We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning. We openly welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions and prior ways of working. Otherwise, how do we innovate, learn, and grow as a team and individuals? How You'll Help Take Us There

Responsibilities

• Enhancing our platform capabilities such as Kubernetes as a Service, multi-region cluster support & fail over and SRE practices
• Build & deliver the infrastructure and capabilities needed to enable application engineers to develop software according to cloud native principles
• Develop and scale engineering best practices for containerized applications across the organization through automations, infrastructure and policy as code
• Partner and collaborate with IT Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Application, and Data Engineering teams
• Focus on improving the user experience for Kubernetes users and iteratively working towards higher degrees of usability and automation
• Relentlessly obsess over how we build, enhance and maintain the trust of the platform users
• Collaborate with Product and Program Managers to maximize the value we deliver to the firm's technology organization

Qualifications

• 5+ years of operating Kubernetes in Production
• 3+ years of hands on experience designing, building, deploying, and automating infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds (AWS preferred, GCP, and Azure) using Infrastructure as Code
• Real world experience with distributed systems, especially Kubernetes; ideally experience with both cloud and/or on premises Kubernetes deployments
• Familiarity with GitOps, Automation and DevSecOps Pipeline tools
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Helm, Kustomize
• Experience with Service Mesh (e.g. Istio)
• Advanced level of Linux OS understanding and scripting skills
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana and other monitoring tools
• Knowledge and experience with service oriented architecture and event streaming (e.g., Confluent / Kafka) and caching platforms (e.g., Redis)
• Understanding of Agile software development practices and operational excellence
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
• Bonus, experience with:EKS, EKS-Anywhere

Company Overview

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one's ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we're going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.

Benefits

• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days
• Reward for your service: We offer a two week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service
• Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a "Share Incentive" plan
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences

For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is £105,000 GBP to £135,000 GBP. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs. Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success - it's how we got to where we are and how we'll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees in Technology work in the office 2 or more days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long term.