DevOps Engineer FTC - Bluecrestcapitalmanagement
OpenTalent · London, United Kingdom ·
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OpenTalent · London, United Kingdom ·
A 12-month fixed-term DevOps engineer role at hedge fund BlueCrest in London, owning end-to-end delivery and operations of hybrid DevOps environments spanning on-prem data centres, Azure and AWS. Core stack: Terraform/Terragrunt, Ansible, Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, Prometheus and ELK.
Department Overview:
Our Technology Infrastructure team operates globally and is responsible for every aspect of the firm's hybrid platform. This ranges from our EUC/Office environments to Trading and Core service Co-Location Data Centres, and extends to Public Cloud, delivering top-tier technology services to a dynamic and demanding Trading organisation. In addition to meeting the round-the-clock operational demands of the platforms, we continuously evolve and transform our platforms to maintain a competitive edge that our business requires. We innovate to provide valuable solutions and leverage our skilled Technology teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements.
Role Overview:
The DevOps engineering specialist (12 month FTC) is a very technical, hands-on role, responsible for end to end delivery and operations of our DevOps environments. They will be joining the team as we lead an ambitious technology modernisation journey. We’re continuing to evolve our global infrastructure - spanning multiple global data centres - into a modern hybrid architecture that leverages both existing on-premise and multi-cloud environments and capabilities across Azure and AWS.
Over the past two years, we've modernised our core trading systems and introduced a range of key technologies including Kubernetes, Kafka, ELK, Prometheus, and more. As we expand and enhance the platforms, our focus is on automating and standardising to ensure consistency, scalability and reliability across all environments.
Experiences and Skills Required:
Must have:
Nice to have, but willing to learn otherwise:
About You:
We’re looking for a very strong individual contributor, passionate about emerging technologies, and constantly improving their environment. The environment is fast moving with minimal process, so you’ll need to be comfortable supporting live systems, critical to the hedge funds operations, with minimal guardrails.