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.
Other
Languages: English: C1 Advanced
Seniority: Lead
