DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: London
Department: Technology
Permanent 

Department overview:

Our Technology Infrastructure team operates globally and is responsible for every aspect of the firm's hybrid platform. This ranges from our EUC/Office environments to Trading and Core service Co-Location Data Centres, and extends to Public Cloud, delivering top-tier technology services to a dynamic and demanding Trading organisation.
In addition to meeting the round-the-clock operational demands of the platforms, we continuously evolve and transform our platforms to maintain a competitive edge that our business requires. We innovate to provide valuable solutions and leverage our skilled Technology teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements.

Role overview:

As a member of our London-based DevOps team, this position involves working closely with the development teams (front office or mid/back office), in order to deliver functionality and facilitate the delivery of new features to the business, engineering, and support of our K8s clusters and collaborating with the platforms team on our multi-tenant private and public cloud initiatives. The role is integral to delivering services to our core business sectors globally, including Trading, middle and back office, and Technology.
The role in addition to the platforms and technologies listed below, requires proficiency in system integration, support, and continuous improvement using DevOps methodologies, with an emphasis on standardisation and repeatability through high levels of automation and orchestration.

Experience required: 

• A minimum of 5 years of industry experience. Prior experience in a similar role within a Financial institution will be advantageous.
• Experience working with pull requests and peer reviews in an agile environment
• Comprehensive Kubernetes engineering and support experience, including on-prem, using bare metal hardware or integrated with hypervisors such as VMWare, and EKS/AKS. This should also include experience with security, high availability, networking, load balancing, and storage.
• Experience with Linux and Microsoft Windows
• Proficient in configuration management and automation, using Ansible (must have) and Terraform (optional).
• Experience of programming in Python (mandatory), and at least one of Groovy, Java or c#
• Excellent understanding of CI/CD, using Teamcity and Jenkins
• Experience with Nexus or Artifactory
• Proficient with OpenTelemetry and an in-depth understanding of Prometheus, ELK, Tempo or Jaeger
• Platform engineering and support experience with Public Cloud platforms, preferably with a major Hyperscaler like Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Previous experience with Java and DotNet Core, including Tomcat and Jetty, good understanding of the JVM and CLR
• Messaging with Kafka
• Experience with Redis, Hazelcast and Memcached
• Experience with Junit, pytest, Selenium and/or other testing frameworks and tools
• Testing with Gremlin, chaos-test, litmuschaos or similar

About you:

The ideal candidate is analytical and methodical, with a proven track record in problem-solving, critical BAU, advanced engineering and technology service delivery in a high-pressure, time-sensitive environment. You should be passionate about emerging technology trends, innovations and directions, and eager to suggest and implement new solutions to enhance our technology performance. You should also understand the need for rapid delivery while appreciating business risk and constraints to ensure adherence to service levels.
The candidate should have extensive experience working both independently and as part of a diverse team, meeting both broad and specific project/BAU objectives. This role requires excellent organisational skills, open communication, and a collaborative approach. Your commitment to continuous improvement should be evident, both in learning from others and sharing knowledge to enhance our team's capability and function.

BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.