DevOps Engineer

Role Profile 

The role is within the Trading Application Services team which sits within the Capital Markets Equities Application Services Division. We strive for our engineers to work within small, agile, self-managed teams that emphasise best practice and believe quality is everyone’s responsibility. They bring an enthusiastic “you build it you run it” mindset whilst making sure they share their knowledge while removing constraints. 

The aim of the role is to strengthen our ability to plan, engineer and support Millennium Technologies (MIT) equities exchange systems, to evolve the system to meet new requirements, proactively prevent and resolve issues that may impact these services and to provide reactive support in a critically important environment. The ideal candidate will possess a broad abilities covering DevOps and application support, as well as in-depth knowledge and experience of the MIT equities platform. The role is most suited to candidates willing to accept a fast paced and varied but balanced and flexible work pattern, which would include covering on-site shifts, participating in the 24x7 on-call rota and supporting weekend testing according to project requirements.

A large part of the role is project based, including playing a key part in improving and evolving our MIT application systems, develop the operational life cycle, upgrading existing systems and implementing integration into the operations architecture toolset. The candidate will also be responsible for leading DevOps activities for the team and work on AWS based implementations and CI/CD deployments

Tech Profile 

Millennium Exchange, Linux, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Datadog, Moogsoft, Big Panda, Git, Bitbucket, Elastic Search, Scripting Technologies (Bash / PowerShell), Control-M, Jira, Confluence. 

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Key responsibilities

• Provide technical feedback into the design and implementation of re-engineering efforts on our MIT equities systems, including the exchange, surveillance and price dissemination platforms.
• Act as the operations SME for one or more of the supported MIT equities applications
• Develop training materials and provide seminars and workshops on the support of MIT equities applications to colleagues in the UK
• Provide Level 2 technical advice and risk assessment based on knowledge of applications, databases and system software
• Ensure that all operational responsibilities are performed including monitoring systems and deploying releases
• Provide effective customer concern and resolution of issues and problems to customers
• Gain an in-depth knowledge of the unit’s processes
• Level 2 support for critical trading systems and meet  SLAs for supported services.
• Identify and implement operational improvements for processes, performance and reliability
• Experience in developing cloud native applications
• Experience in automating infrastructure provisioning and application deployment 
• Build CI/CD pipelines orchestrating the promotion of code 
• Define and implement cloud native operational requirements 
• Build Onprem and AWS/Cloud based applications
• Service Management and ITSM practice
• Open and collaborative demeanor keeping artifacts up to date and relevant while actively promoting knowledge sharing

Requirements:

• 2+ years of DevOps experience
• Experience with some of the following techologies: Millennium Exchange, Linux, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Datadog, Moogsoft, Big Panda, Git, Bitbucket, Elastic Search, Scripting Technologies (Bash / PowerShell), Control-M, Jira, Confluence. 

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