DevOps Engineer SRE AWS Kafka Python Finance London
Posted Today by Joseph Harry Ltd
£750 Per day
Undetermined
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The Senior DevOps Engineer role involves working with a trading software client in London, focusing on building a Fixed Income trading platform. The position requires strong expertise in DevOps, AWS, and Python, along with experience in CI/CD and streaming technologies like Kafka and Kinesis. The role is part of a collaborative team of engineers and offers a hybrid working arrangement. Candidates with trading experience and knowledge of Java or Go are preferred but not essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Front End and Back End developers to enhance the trading platform.
- Utilize AWS, Python, and CI/CD tools like ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
- Assist in the implementation of Kafka and K-Streams.
- Participate in the modernization of technology within the department.
- Work in a hybrid model, primarily in the office two days a week.
Key Skills:
- Very strong experience as a DevOps/SRE/Cloud/Platform Engineer.
- Excellent AWS skills.
- Advanced Python programming.
- Strong CI/CD experience.
- Experience with Kafka/Flink/Kinesis streaming.
- Agile methodology experience.
- Ability to read Java (desirable).
- Experience with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (desirable).
- Experience in a trading environment (desirable).
- Knowledge of K-Streams (desirable).
Salary (Rate): £750/day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS Python Amazon Web Services DevOps SRE Kafka K-Streams Flink Kinesis Agile Java GitHub Actions ArgoCD Site Reliability Platform Cloud Engineer Developer Kubernetes EKS Front Office Trading Finance Banking Asset Manager Investment Management) required by our trading software client in London.
You MUST have the following:
- Very strong experience as a DevOps/SRE/Cloud/Platform Engineer
- Excellent AWS
- Advanced Python
- Very strong CI/CD experience
- Kafka/Flink/Kinesis streaming
- Agile
The following is DESIRABLE, not essential:
- Ability to read Java
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- Experience in a trading environment
- K-Streams
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS Python Amazon Web Services DevOps SRE Kafka K-Streams Flink Kinesis Agile Java GitHub Actions ArgoCD Site Reliability Platform Cloud Engineer Developer Kubernetes EKS Front Office Trading Finance Banking Asset Manager Investment Management) required by our trading software client in London. You will join a team of 10 engineers spread over London and New York that are part of a department that are building a Fixed Income trading platform. You will be working with one other DevOps Engineer, 4 Front End developers and 4 Back End developers. The Front End developers are working on a large programme of work to rebuild the Front End of this trading system in React, whilst the Back End developers are improving the Back End and implementing Kafka and K-Streams. You will be assisting both the front and the Back End developers and working with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions. You will be working with Python mostly but any knowledge of Go and Java would be advantageous. Any experience with Kafka or K-Streams would also be highly advantageous, as would trading experience, although neither are essential.
The hybrid working is 2 days/week in the office, although there can be flexibility on this.
You would be joining a department that is making very rapid moves in modernisation of technology, working alongside a very high standard of fellow engineer.
Duration: 12-24 months
Rate: £600-750/day