Lead DevOps Engineer

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

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, and related tools

Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools such as Ansible

Extend and replicate existing CI/CD pipelines for new services and repositories rather than building from scratch

Manage and optimise deployment processes across on-prem Red Hat VM environments and evolving cloud platforms

Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure system health and SLA adherence

Support high-availability and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring compliance with LSEG resilience standards

Collaborate with development and QA teams to enable continuous testing, integration, and delivery

Ensure secure, compliant deployments, including cyber security and regulatory requirements

Support performance, capacity, and non-functional testing environments

Drive infrastructure and platform automation, including: secrets management, artifact/package repositories, environment standardisation

Support integration environments involving MQ-based messaging (XML-based APIs)

Participate in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, stand-ups) as part of a Scrum team

Provide production support, release coordination, and go-live support (including weekend/night coverage)

Participate in hypercare support (up to 3 days post go-live with on-call escalation model)

Contribute to platform readiness for cloud migration and hybrid architecture models

Expected to operate in an environment where AI-assisted development is the norm

Skills

Must have

Strong experience in DevOps engineering (10+ years preferred)

Proven expertise with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)

Hands-on experience with configuration management / IaC tools (Ansible or equivalent)

Hands-on experience in using AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) for engineering tasks, pipeline automation enhancements, quality and compliance checks

Experience managing Linux/Red Hat-based environments

Solid understanding of deployment automation, release management, and rollback strategies

Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks

Knowledge of high-availability, disaster recovery, and resilience engineering

Familiarity with database environments (Oracle) and integration pipelines

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments within regulated SDLC frameworks

Strong understanding of security best practices and compliance in financial systems

Strong experience in DevOps automation beyond CI/CD, including: infrastructure automation, secrets management, environment provisioning

Nice to have

Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud migration strategies

Experience in low-latency, high-throughput systems

Familiarity with financial services / clearing / trading platforms

Experience implementing observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, ELK, Datadog)

Knowledge of Java/Spring Boot application deployment and tuning

Experience with caching technologies (HazelCast)

Understanding of risk and regulatory requirements (EMIR, systemic systems)

Experience working with messaging systems (MQ), distributed backend systems.

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Lead