Senior DevOps Engineer

Our Partner offers future-proof quant technologies to global investors. Cloud-hosted and Python-based, the platform integrates a next-gen backtest engine and analytics with curated datasets covering equities, rates, FX, commodities and volatility. Our Partner eliminates the expensive upfront costs of infrastructure build-out, giving clients an edge in alpha generation from day one. 

Founded in 2019 we are a rapidly growing IT and services firm with offices in the UK and the USA. Investors with combined AUM $5 trillions are using Our Partner. We're launching our operations in Bangalore, and we're looking for engineers who are highly talented, competent, and committed to our clients' needs.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with the Engineering team  in delivering best-in-class products for our clients and our internal customers. Responsibilities will include designing architecture using the latest cloud technologies, implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline, including the automation of the build and deployment process.

Role and Responsibilities

• Strengthen our application and cloud Infrastructure security, applying standards and best practices and providing tooling to make development workflows more secure
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications. 
• Enable CI and CD through development of appropriate tools and infrastructure
• Participate in technical discussions, provide insights based upon past experience and implement the best solutions.

Key Requirements for this Role

• 5+ years of experience of strong experience as DevOps Engineer
• Extensive experience in managing cloud infrastructure AWS and Azure (AWS mandate).
• Good command over Linux operating systems, containerised environments and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with deployment automation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Go)
• Experience in managing Kafka based data-pipelines / data platform
• Automate the development, testing, and deployment processes through CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Action, Helm)
• On-call experience and troubleshooting distributed systems, administration of JupyterHub or similar tools will be an added advantage.
• Operational experience with supporting large scale Financial systems, is a plus.
• Experience working for a fast-paced startup environment
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.