Lead DevOps Engineer

Project description 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.