Project description

The project is a strategic initiative to deliver a new FX Swaps clearing capability, enabling atomic processing of swap packages within a highly regulated, low-latency clearing environment.The platform operates under strict resilience, latency (≤10 seconds SLA), and regulatory (EMIR) constraints. The DevOps function will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, automation, continuous delivery, and operational resilience, while supporting a transition towards cloud-enabled infrastructure.This is a mission-critical system requiring Cat 5 resilience, robust CI/CD pipelines, strong monitoring, and disaster recovery capabilities.The solution will initially be deployed on-prem, with future migration to AWS (multi-AZ, multi-region).

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve security vulnerabilities in AWS infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD pipelines.


• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support automated and secure software delivery.


• Deploy and manage applications using Docker and Kubernetes.


• Manage secrets, privileged access, and artifact repositories.


• Implement security, monitoring, logging, and disaster recovery best practices.


• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to improve platform reliability and security.


• Support cloud migrations and infrastructure hardening initiatives.

SKILLS

Must have

• Experience


• 8+ years' experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.


• Proven ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision. Someone with drive to actively pull work and deliver.


• Experience operating within large enterprise environments.


• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.


• Experience delivering large-scale transformation and migration projects.

Linux & Infrastructure

• Expert-level Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.


• Strong Unix/Linux troubleshooting and support experience.


• On-premises infrastructure experience.


• Understanding of server lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, and operational support.

Scripting & Automation

• Strong Bash scripting capability.


• Strong Python development and automation skills.


• Experience automating operational, deployment, and infrastructure processes.


• Configuration management and infrastructure automation experience.

CI/CD & DevOps Tooling

• Significant experience with: GitLabo Jenkinso Ansibleo Git


• Designing, supporting, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.


• Implementing DevOps best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.


• Source code management and branching strategy expertise.

Troubleshooting & Operations

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.


• Experience supporting production and non-production environments.


• Ability to identify root causes and drive issues through to resolution.


• Experience supporting engineering teams with build, deployment, and platform-related issues.

Nice to have

Security / DevSecOps

• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.


• Security-first mindset.


• Understanding of: Vulnerability management.


• Understanding of: Secrets management.


• Understanding of: Secure software delivery.


• Understanding of: Certificate management.


• Understanding of: Access control, authentication and authorisation, e.g. PAM and IDAM.

Infrastructure as Code

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.


• Automation and platform provisioning expertise.

Networking & Security Concepts

• Understanding of: TCP/IP.


• Understanding of: DNS.


• Understanding of: Load balancing.


• Understanding of: Firewalls.


• Understanding of: TLS/SSL certificates.

Database Knowledge

• Good understanding of relational databases.


• Oracle administration or support experience highly desirable.


• Ability to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues.

Monitoring & Observability

• Experience with: Monitoring platforms e.g. DataDog.


• Experience with: Logging platforms.


• Experience with: Alerting solutions.