Summary
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A global quantitative investment organization is seeking a Core DevOps Engineer to build and support scalable platforms, tooling, and infrastructure for technology and trading teams. The role spans cloud and on-premises environments and emphasizes automation, reliability, developer productivity, and operational excellence. Applicants from around the world are welcome, with relocation support available for suitable candidates.
Highlights
Global opportunity with relocation support, exposure to both cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and a high-impact engineering environment focused on automation, reliability, and developer productivity.
Description
Who We Are
Our client is a global quantitative hedge fund operating across major liquid asset classes worldwide.
The firm combines technology, data, research, and trading expertise to drive investment decisions, with engineering platforms playing a critical role in supporting trading, market access, and technology teams globally.
We welcome applicants from across the globe.
Relocation support will be provided for suitable candidates.
We Are Seeking: Core DevOps Engineer
This role focuses on building and supporting the platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that enable developers, traders, and technology teams to operate efficiently at scale.
You will work across cloud and on-premises environments, helping to improve developer productivity, platform reliability, automation, and operational excellence.
Previous experience within buy-side firms, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, or other performance-sensitive environments is highly valued.
Key Responsibilities
Design and implement platform tooling and infrastructure to improve reliability and developer productivityBuild, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release processesManage environment deployments, upgrades, and migrationsPartner with engineering teams to ensure systems perform reliably in productionBuild tools, APIs, and automation to reduce operational overheadImprove monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational readinessDevelop and maintain integrations with internal platforms and services
Requirements
Experience operating infrastructure across hybrid environments (AWS and on-premises)Strong experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS)Good understanding of AWS services, including:EC2VPC networkingLoad balancingStrong Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar)Good scripting skills across Linux & Windows environmentsStrong Python experienceGood understanding of Git and software development workflowsExperience working within mature CI/CD environmentsStrong problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation
Highly Relevant Experience
Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as:PrometheusGrafanaElasticsearchSplunkCoralogixExposure to C/C++, Make, or CMake-based build environmentsExperience building internal developer platforms or self-service toolingSupporting production systems in high-availability environmentsExperience within trading, financial services, or other performance-critical industries
What We're Looking For
Engineer-first mindset with a passion for automationStrong sense of ownership and operational responsibilityComfortable working across infrastructure, tooling, and software engineering domainsEffective communicator and collaborative team playerContinuous improvement mentality and attention to system reliability
Why Join Us
Build and operate critical platforms supporting trading and technology teamsWork with modern cloud, container, and automation technologiesStrong focus on engineering quality, automation, and reliabilityOpportunity to make a direct impact on the productivity of technical teams across the firm
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