Lead DevOps Engineer SRE Finance Trading Banking London
Posted Today by Joseph Harry Ltd
£950 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The Lead DevOps Engineer role involves overseeing the build, deployment, and enhancement of a trading system for a financial software client in London. The position requires strong expertise in DevOps practices, particularly within front office trading applications, and managing production incidents. The role includes leadership responsibilities, with a focus on modern technology adoption and collaboration with engineering teams. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement with significant technical influence in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the DevOps/SRE team responsible for trading applications.
- Manage production environment incidents and ensure system reliability.
- Oversee the build and deployment processes for the trading system.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance the tech stack and resolve high-value production issues.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience as a DevOps/SRE/Cloud/Platform Engineer.
- Experience with front office trading applications, specifically EMS and OMS.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and CI/CD practices.
- Familiarity with Kafka, Flink, and Kinesis streaming technologies.
- Agile methodology experience.
- Desirable skills include Java, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, K-Streams, and AWS.
Salary (Rate): £950/day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Lead 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 Lead Principal Front-Office Trade EMS OMS) required by our trading software client in London.
You MUST have the following:
- Very strong experience as a DevOps/SRE/Cloud/Platform Engineer
- Experience working with front office trading applications, ideally EMS and OMS
- Production environment incident management
- 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
- K-Streams
- AWS
Role: Lead 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 Lead Principal Front-Office Trade EMS OMS) required by our trading software client in London. You will join a department of roughly 40 engineers that are responsible for the build, deployment and improvement of the company's lead revenue generating trading system. You will have a mid-level DevOps Engineer in London reporting into you. You will also work closely with a senior and another mid-level DevOps Engineer in New York. You will be the DevOps/SRE Engineers for the four engineering teams in this department. They are working to completely overhaul the React Front End and further adopt Kafka and Kafka-Streams on the back end. The department is also responsible for production issues which have a value of millions of dollars for every hour that there's an outage. As such, experience resolving issues in high-value trading environments is essential.
The tech stack is ArgoCd, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, Python, Go, Kafka and Kafka Streams. Modern DevOps tooling experience is very desirable. Streaming is also expected.
You will be on the management team for the department and also have a close relationship with the Head of Cloud Infrastructure and the data engineering team. There is the potential for this to evolve into a larger, company-wide role. This is a fast-paced, rapid delivery environment, with a high standard of engineering. Modern technology and paradigms are adopted quickly. You'll have significant technical influence in the space.
The hybrid working is 2 days/week in the office, although there can be flexibility on this.
Duration: 6 - 12 months
Rate: £700 - 950/day