Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes & Observability

Dvtrading; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options

Group Term Life and AD&D insurance

Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance

Flexible Vacation policy

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

DV Trading is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to own and operate the on‑prem Kubernetes platform that powers our trading systems. You’ll scale the observability stack, automate CI/CD, and drive self‑service tooling across desks and engineering teams.

You’ll work with a team that built the platform from scratch and now scales to meet high demand in a fast-paced, high‑reliability trading environment. Ownership from day one is emphasized.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes production experience: cluster lifecycle, networking, storage, RBAC.
• Observability with Prometheus, Grafana; familiarity with Mimir/Loki/Tempo/Thanos.
• GitOps experience with ArgoCD/Flux; CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/GitHub Actions).
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Linux fundamentals: systemd, networking, storage, troubleshooting.
• Go or Python for automation; comfortable with YAML and Helm.
• Excellent communication with trading desks and dev teams about platforms.

Responsibilities

• Operate and evolve the Kubernetes platform: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, bare metal provisioning, CNI, storage, autoscaling, DR planning.
• Run and scale on-prem observability stack: Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Alertmanager.
• Own CI/CD and GitOps workflows: GitLab pipelines, ArgoCD, artifact management, onboarding trading desks.
• Build automation tooling for provisioning and configuration management to enable fast self-service changes.
• Partner with trading desks and developers to onboard them to the platform; write runbooks and docs.

Skills

Kubernetes

Observability

GitOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Linux

Go

Python

YAML

Helm

Tools

Cluster API

ArgoCD

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Artifactory/Nexus

Terraform

Ansible

Kubeflow

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Loki/Tempo

Mimir

Job description

DV Trading is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to own and operate the on‑prem Kubernetes platform that powers our trading systems. You’ll scale the observability stack, automate CI/CD, and drive self‑service tooling across desks and engineering teams.

You’ll work with a team that built the platform from scratch and now scales to meet high demand in a fast-paced, high‑reliability trading environment. Ownership from day one is emphasized.