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Senior Devops Engineer

Lead global DevOps modernization to improve automation and deployment efficiency
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Senior
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TP ICAP

TP ICAP

A leading global firm specializing in brokering and financial services for trading and data solutions in the financial markets.

DevOps Engineer

TP ICAP has undertaken an ambitious program of modernization and engineering maturity over the next three years. The program is global and across all divisions and applications. There is a desire to move towards faster, safer, and more automated product delivery at scale. A key part of this program is to deliver automated CI/CD pipelines, increase developer productivity, shift left many of the traditional practices, and deliver more change into production more reliably.

The candidate will be leading this uplift and modernization of engineering capabilities around automation of development, testing, and production delivery for TP ICAP’s platforms. The candidate will provide hands-on as well as thought leadership in designing this strategy as well as executing with a combination of internal and external teams over the next two years. The candidate is able to educate and influence application development teams globally to adopt new tools and practices, and also demonstrate measurable improvements in productivity, time to market, and operational resiliency.

The role requires a business-minded, highly collaborative, team-focused experienced DevOps engineer with exceptional communication skills to work with developers and testers in DevOps principles.

Role Responsibilities

  • Design DevOps modernization and adoption strategy incorporating current industry practices and technologies
  • Engineer internal tooling to implement automation in software development, testing, and production delivery
  • Reduce manual overhead involved in software releases by fully automating delivery pipelines that includes testing
  • Improve production stability and resiliency through process improvement and adoption of better observability tools
  • Support application teams in adopting a consistent set of tools, practices, and technology to support an agile delivery model, including automation and incremental delivery of software in test and production environments running in the cloud and on-premise
  • Engage with vendors and service providers to bring best in class industry practices, speed up internal build as well as accelerate companywide adoption of new tools and practices
  • Assist and architect where appropriate solutions using containerization and serverless technologies
  • Drive automation for environment management, logging, and monitoring
  • To fulfil any additional/ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

Experience / Competencies

Essential

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science
  • 7-10 yrs experience in practicing and leading DevOps practice in leading Financial or Technology companies
  • Demonstrated experience leading and executing transformation programs involving significant uplift of DevOps and SDLC automation capabilities
  • Past experience delivering measurable process and productivity improvements via DevOps investments and driving a metrics driven practice of continuous improvement
  • Intimately familiar with modern DevOps and SRE principles
  • Deep and broad experience of AWS Cloud platform and services
  • Previous experience in automating and integrating Testing into CI/CD pipelines (unit, integration, smoke testing)

Desired

  • Previous experience working in development teams using Agile methodologies (e.g. SAFe) and practicing Lean Delivery principles
  • Knowledge of third-party automation tools and technologies with relative pros and cons for all stages of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability
  • Platforms; Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu
  • Proficiency in at least one of the following scripting languages; Python, GO, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy
  • Programming language with a working knowledge in at least one of Java, C# (.NET Framework/Core), JavaScript (Node.js), Ruby, C++
  • Developer tooling; Full stack CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus
  • Knowledge and working experience of containerizing application components including writing DockerFiles and deploying to Kubernetes
  • Deep understanding of pipelines as code
  • Observability concepts and tooling; Opensearch, Cribl, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch

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Not The Perfect Fit?

Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? At TP ICAP, we wholeheartedly believe in fostering inclusivity and cultivating a work environment where everyone can flourish, regardless of your personal or professional background. If you are enthusiastic about this role but find that your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this position or another opportunity within our organization. Our dedicated Talent Acquisition team is here to assist you in recognizing how your unique skills and abilities can be a valuable contribution. Don’t hesitate to take the leap and explore the possibilities. Your potential is what truly matters to us.

Company Statement

We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That’s why we’re building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready, and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement.

Location

UK - City Quays - Belfast

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Senior Devops Engineer
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Engineering
About TP ICAP
A leading global firm specializing in brokering and financial services for trading and data solutions in the financial markets.