Are you a technologist who has a hunger to dig deep and get involved in providing first-class solutions to real-world problems?
DevOps Engineer – Pricing Platform for Derivatives
First Derivative is a people-first company. We are powered by our ever-growing teams of specialist problem-solvers and process-evolvers. Our extensive capabilities offer agile solutions and exciting career opportunities – whether you're in the early stages of your career, looking for a new direction, or wanting to continue in a position of leadership.
Joining the world’s largest Capital Markets dedicated consultancy, you will have the opportunity to gain exposure to a range of mission-critical projects, tech stacks, clients and a company that prides itself on career development, variety, and flexibility.
We have opportunities for Mid-Senior Engineers who will work shoulder to shoulder with Tier 1 investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, UBS, Citigroup, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse to name a few.
What will you do?
We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team focused on optimizing our cutting-edge pricing platform for derivatives. This platform handles orchestration for our on-premises, in-house distributed compute environment and is primarily built in Python. This is a unique opportunity to support capital markets infrastructure, driving improvements in efficiency, scalability, and monitoring capabilities for critical pricing applications.
Key Responsibilities
* Distributed Compute Orchestration: Manage and optimize an in-house distributed compute environment, working with Python-based orchestration.
* Scripting & Automation: Use your expertise in Unix and Bash scripting to develop and automate infrastructure processes.
* Observability & Monitoring: Implement, manage, and optimize observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Victoria Metrics) to monitor platform performance and ensure enterprise-level infrastructure oversight.
* Platform Optimization: Leverage insights from observability tools to identify inefficiencies and optimize compute performance.
* Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with development and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvements.
Essential Requirements:
* Strong background in Unix systems and Bash scripting.
* Experience with Java for orchestration and automation.
* Strong experience of database technologies.
* Proficiency with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Victoria Metrics for enterprise-level monitoring.
* Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, or HPC grid (or similar).
What's in it for you?
You will embark upon a career with life-long learning at its core, facilitating rapid professional and personal development and the opportunity to design your own career path.
Benefits:
* Hybrid and Flexible Working
* Extensive Private Healthcare Package
* Private Pension
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Enhanced Maternity/ Paternity policies
* Group Life Protection Benefit
* Employee Referral Bonus Scheme
* Access to a range of skills and certifications such as GCP, AWS, Azure and more!
Additional Perks:
* FD Internal Network and Sports & Social Calendar, who host monthly and quarterly socials at each office.
* Aspiring Leadership Programme – a programme which provides a structured and practical pathway to fast-track talented individuals into leadership roles.
* STEP-up Awards - employee led awards designed to acknowledge excellence in four areas that are quintessential to us.
* TechSmiths Guild – helping employees get to grips with everything cloud computing and data storage (which are integral to the future of business and risk management).
* STRIVE Initiative and IMPACT Programme – development programmes put in place to support women in tech and financial services.
* Investment Club - employees learn the basics of investment and trading via workshops and competitions, mirroring real-life scenarios.
* Food Club – the opportunity to try out new cuisines together as a team.
* Sports Club – a bit of healthy competition! Getting involved in 5k fun runs, JPM challenge and SCB challenge.
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