Lead DevOps Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Overview

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in the Global Electronic Trading Group, you will help build and deliver secure, scalable market-leading technology. You will work within an agile team to enhance latency-sensitive trading, data analytics, and quantitative environments in London, partnering with global colleagues. You will influence product design, own critical DevOps and release processes, and drive the adoption of cutting-edge tooling. This role offers impact across trading systems and engineering culture with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others’ work
• Influence product design, functionality, and operational processes
• Act as a subject matter expert in one or more focus areas
• Promote firmwide SDLC frameworks, tools, and practices
• Advocate for leading-edge technologies in decision-making
• Contribute to a diverse and inclusive team culture
• Coordinate DevOps / Integration release management activities
• Monitor plant capacity and reporting, and manage CI environment
• Provide third-level production support

Key requirements

• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language
• Strong knowledge across cloud, AI/ML, mobile, or related technical disciplines
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal oversight
• Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• Linux proficiency with command-line skills, scripting (Python/Perl), UNIX
• Cloud-native development and run capabilities (microservices, containers, dynamic orchestration)
• CI/CD experience (Jenkins, release management tools) and automation/tool development in Python or similar scripting
• Automation experience to reduce toil and generate reporting

• Strong collaboration and communication
• Problem-solving and independent initiative
• Advocacy for best practices and continuous improvement
• Python
• Perl
• Java

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