Production DevOps Engineer

Camber Morris

London · Permanent · On-site · £120,000 - £160,000/year

Production DevOps Engineer

Every millisecond counts when trading at scale. We are seeking a talented Production DevOps Engineer to take ownership of our mission-critical trading environments. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations, ensuring our high-frequency trading platforms, data pipelines, and production systems maintain peak performance, absolute stability, and continuous availability.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage Production Environments: Oversee the deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of our low-latency, high-throughput production trading systems.
  • Automate Infrastructure & Pipelines: Build and optimize continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to enable rapid, safe releases of trading software.
  • Optimize System Performance: Continuously analyze and fine-tune system latency, network configurations, and resource utilization to maintain a competitive market edge.
  • Incident Response & Reliability: Lead root-cause analyses for production incidents, implement automated self-healing mechanisms, and participate in an on-call rotation.
  • Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect, provision, and maintain immutable infrastructure using modern configuration management tools.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Proven DevOps Expertise: Strong track record as a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Systems Engineer supporting high-availability production environments.
  • Trading or Financial Services Background: Demonstrated experience supporting real-time, mission-critical systems within a trading firm, hedge fund, or investment bank.
  • Advanced Automation & Scripting: Mastery of Python, Bash, or Go for system automation, tooling development, and process optimization.
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Deep practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and managing containerized applications in production.
  • Linux Systems Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of Linux kernel tuning, system internals, networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP), and performance troubleshooting.