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Lead DevOps Engineer

London - 12 Arthur Street💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the design, automation, and support of highly available, low-latency trading infrastructure and business-critical financial systems across cloud and on-prem environments.

Role type

Senior IC DevOps/Platform Engineering Lead

Builds

Scalable, secure, and highly available trading platforms and infrastructure

Domain

Financial services / Low-latency trading infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Linux/Unix administration, Python/Bash scripting, CI/CD pipeline design, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Chef), Container orchestration (Kubernetes), Cloud operations (AWS, Azure), Incident response, Observability (Splunk), Agile delivery leadership, Mentoring engineers

Preferred skills

AI-assisted engineering tools, Financial systems domain knowledge, Low-latency networking expertise, AWS EKS, Azure, RHCE, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Technologies

AWS, Azure, EKS, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, EFS, Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Bash, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab, Splunk, GitHub Copilot, Cursor

Responsibilities

Lead design and evolution of scalable trading infrastructure; Provide technical direction and mentorship while remaining hands-on; Build and improve automated CI/CD pipelines; Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows; Support production systems with high availability and disaster recovery; Containerize applications and support deployments; Partner with development teams to improve deployment and monitoring; Troubleshoot complex deployment and performance issues; Identify and implement AI-enabled operational capabilities; Establish best practices for CI/CD and cloud operations

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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