Senior DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Engineer would sit within a development team. This person would be part of Operations but work on the requirements for the development team and focus exclusively on helping with product development.

The DevOps Engineer would lower the number of handovers between the Development and Operations teams, therefore speeding up cycle times. The DevOps Engineer would work with other DevOps and Platform members to ensure that changes made within their remit don’t affect the underlying platform or other planned work and are compliant with all applicable policies.

Responsibilities

The role is part of the Execution team at Trayport, which is currently undergoing a technology modernisation transformation. The team is transitioning from an on-premises platform to AWS, aiming to make their applications cloud-native. This process takes into account the latency-sensitive nature of the applications. There will be other Stakeholders in the role daily work with Development team members, and InfoSec, to ensure that all changes made to applications and their CI/CD pipelines are designed to security best practices.

The Person

Must Have

• Cloud knowledge, AWS preferred or other would be considered
• Experience with Octopus Deploy, managing deployment pipelines to automate the release process for applications and service
• Configuring and maintaining TeamCity build servers, creating and optimising CI/CD pipelines
• Azure DevOps knowledge, Git, creating new and maintaining existing pipelines
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm, ideally using EKS
• Good Terraform knowledge
  
  

Desired

• Understand Code signing processes and tooling
• Coding knowledge would be an advantage in PowerShell, C# and C++
• Has worked with VMware in the past
• Knowledge of Observability tooling, Prometheus, Grafana etc
• Database technologies with high availability
  
  

The Person

• Super interested in all things technical
• You’re energized to learn and apply new technologies and skills.
• An inquisitive nature, excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving skills
• Working with a DevOps and SRE mindset
• Excellent scripting skills with knowledge of scripting best practices
• Understanding of CI/CD systems
• Collaborative, team player with a positive attitude
• Able to constructively discuss and persuade the improvements in technology and processes, suggesting both strategic and tactical improvements
  
  

Trayport is committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide accommodations for applicants and employees who require it.