Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

The company provides market infrastructure, giving clients access to global financial and commodities markets with better price discovery, liquidity and data distribution.

It operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries and employs 5,300 people.

Over the next three years, a modernization programme across all divisions and applications aims to make product delivery faster, safer and more automated at scale.

The programme centres on automated CI/CD pipelines, higher developer productivity, earlier testing and more reliable releases into production.

You will lead this work over the next two years, combining hands-on building with strategy and working alongside internal and external teams.

You will coach application teams worldwide to adopt new tools and practices, and show measurable gains in productivity, time to market and operational resilience.

The role suits a business-minded, collaborative and team-focused DevOps engineer with strong communication skills, able to work with developers and testers on DevOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Create the DevOps modernization and adoption strategy using current industry practices and tools.
• Build internal tooling that automates development, testing and production delivery.
• Cut manual effort in releases by fully automating delivery pipelines, testing included.
• Raise production stability and resilience through process changes and better observability tools.
• Help application teams standardise on common tools, practices and technology for agile, incremental delivery in cloud and on-premises test and production environments.
• Work with vendors and service providers to bring in leading practices, speed up internal builds and drive company-wide adoption of new tools.
• Design and help build containerisation and serverless solutions where they fit.
• Automate environment management, logging and monitoring.
• Take on other ad hoc duties the business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science.
• 5-10 years practising and leading DevOps in financial or technology companies.
• Track record of leading transformation programmes that significantly upgrade DevOps and SDLC automation.
• Experience delivering measurable process and productivity gains through DevOps work, and running a metrics-driven continuous improvement practice.
• Strong grasp of modern DevOps and SRE principles.
• Deep, broad experience with AWS; Azure or GCP also considered.
• Experience automating and integrating unit, integration and smoke testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working in agile development teams (e.g. SAFe) and applying Lean delivery principles.
• Knowledge of third-party automation tools across SDLC, CI/CD and observability, including their strengths and weaknesses.
• Platforms: Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash or Groovy.
• Working knowledge of at least one language: Java, C (.NET Framework/Core), JavaScript (Node.js), Ruby or C++.
• Developer tooling: full-stack CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus.
• Containerising application components, including writing Dockerfiles and deploying to Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of pipelines as code.
• Observability tools: Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch.

Conditions

Based at City Quays 3 in Belfast, UK, with hybrid working.

Band and level: Manager, 6.

The company welcomes applications from people who meet most but not all of the criteria, and equal opportunity applies to all candidates.