Senior DevOps Engineer

The Role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and tools needed for efficient software service provision. You will collaborate closely with development and infrastructure teams to streamline processes, enhance system reliability, and ensure seamless integration and delivery of software services. Your role will involve automating workflows, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues to maintain high availability and performance. Strong analytical skills, effective communication, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment are key to success in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the Development team, Infrastructure team, Support team and Product Management team to provide tools to support business processes within the following categories:
• Monitoring – ensuring that the systems are available and working within expected parameters
• Validation – Did the deployments succeed, are the configurations valid…
• Deployment/ Upgrades – taking software through a CI/Deployment pipelines to meet the needs of the business
• Investigation/troubleshooting – Investigating issues passed over from the support team to understand and prevent recurrence.
• Business Intelligence – understand the usage of the applications/tools to provide insights to drive future development.
• Security – support pen tests/security reviews, understand impacts to business of threats raised from the security landscape
• Collaboratively work as part of the wider team to continuously deliver quality software to production
• Apply your experience and knowledge to solve both common and complex issues
• Exercise significant independent judgement to determine the best method for accomplishing objectives
• Provide constructive and timely feedback to the wider ION Analytics team with a goal of improvement/automation of repetitive tasks.
• Contribute to developing and refining the existing processes to enhance quality and productivity and promoting best practice.

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a related role
• Some experience with PowerShell, JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET, SQL
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines/GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Monitoring tools, SCOM Management packs/Site 24/7…
• Practical skills in debugging and profiling applications
• Windows/Azure Administration experience
• Experience communicating to internal and external stakeholders
• Degree educated in Computer Science or relevant subject
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Enthusiastic about delivering high quality software
• Experience of driving innovation within teams
• Positive, can-do approach to work, delivering on commitments
• Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively
• Able to earn respect and build trust through high-quality delivery and by demonstrating the value added
• Constant drive to learn from your own - and others - mistakes
• Act with integrity, with the ability to make decisions, taking accountability for the consequences of these decisions
• Creative approach to problem solving, can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and propose innovative solutions

About us

We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.

• Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.

• Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.

ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe,

Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.

ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.

ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.