Senior Devops Engineer - Investment Banking IT

A high-impact Senior DevOps position is available within a global investment firm, supporting a major E-Trading platform at the heart of its macro business. This is a hands-on, strategic engineering role focused on developer productivity, automation, and platform modernisation.

You'll be driving initiatives that shape how software is built and delivered across a critical trading platform with high visibility and strong executive backing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the evolution of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and test infrastructure to improve speed and reliability.

• Champion fully automated testing across 25+ environments to support fast, safe deployments.

• Enhance developer workflows by improving tooling, reducing friction, and scaling internal platforms.

• Work with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes (on-prem/OpenShift/cloud), Helm, Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, Golang (or similar), and Elastic.

• Collaborate directly with developers to optimize software delivery and improve engineering metrics (eg, deployment frequency, cycle time).

• Promote modern DevOps practices and execute on an already-established roadmap for foundational engineering improvements.

Team Structure:

• Join a focused DevOps team currently with two practitioners

• Opportunity to lead and grow the team, shaping the DevOps function for a strategically important platform.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Deep understanding of developer pain points and strong empathy for engineering workflows.

• Experience driving impactful DevOps initiatives in high-stakes, regulated environments.

• Strong executor with a passion for automation, testing, and continuous improvement.

• Comfortable taking ownership and delivering independently within a fast-moving environment.

• Committed to advancing modern software delivery practices in Legacy-heavy environments.