Senior DevOps Engineer

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.
• Experience working closely with Unix, Middleware, Database, Network, and Security teams. 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: o GitLab o Jenkins o Ansible o 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

Desirable Skills Security / DevSecOps • Experience implementing DevSecOps practices. • Security-first mindset. • Understanding of: o Vulnerability management o Secrets management o Secure software delivery o Certificate management o 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: o TCP/IP o DNS o Load balancing o Firewalls o 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: o Monitoring platforms e.g. DataDog o Logging platforms o Alerting solutions o Performance analysis and troubleshooting • Understanding of observability principles. ________________________________________ Transformation & Migration Experience Experience delivering one or more of the following: • Red Hat/Linux migration programmes. • Platform modernisation initiatives. • CI/CD tooling migrations. • DevOps transformation projects. • Repository migrations. • Enterprise infrastructure upgrade programmes. • Data centre migration projects. Examples relevant to your environment: • Jenkins to GitLab migration. • Nexus to Artifactory migration. • Vault platform migration. • Legacy platform modernisation. ________________________________________ Tooling Experience (Highly Desirable) Experience with some or all of: Source Control & CI/CD • GitLab • Jenkins • Git Automation • Ansible • Python • Bash Artifact & Package Management • Artifactory • Nexus Secrets Management • HashiCorp Vault or equivalent enterprise vault technologies Operating Systems • Red Hat Enterprise Linux • Unix ________________________________________ Industry Experience Preferred but not essential: • Financial Services • Capital Markets • Post-Trade / Clearing • Regulated environments Candidates should understand: • Change management processes • Audit and compliance requirements • High availability and resilience requirements