Build and maintain critical infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools for a global quantitative hedge fund’s trading and technology teams. Design hybrid cloud (AWS + on-prem) platforms, improve developer productivity, and ensure high-availability production systems. Requires deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and Python with a focus on operational excellence in performance-sensitive environments.
Key Highlights
Key Responsibilities
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Nice to Have
Job 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 productivity
- Build, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release processes
- Manage environment deployments, upgrades, and migrations
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure systems perform reliably in production
- Build tools, APIs, and automation to reduce operational overhead
- Improve monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational readiness
- Develop and maintain integrations with internal platforms and services
Looking to advance your Devops career with relocation support? Explore Devops Jobs with Relocation Packages that include comprehensive packages to help you move and settle in your new role.
Requirements
- Experience operating infrastructure across hybrid environments (AWS and on-premises)
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS)
- Good understanding of AWS services, including:
- EC2
- VPC networking
- Load balancing
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar)
- Good scripting skills across Linux & Windows environments
- Strong Python experience
- Good understanding of Git and software development workflows
- Experience working within mature CI/CD environments
- Strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation
Highly Relevant Experience
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as:
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Elasticsearch
- Splunk
- Coralogix
- Exposure to C/C++, Make, or CMake-based build environments
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
- Supporting production systems in high-availability environments
- Experience within trading, financial services, or other performance-critical industries
Discover our full range of relocation jobs with comprehensive support packages to help you relocate and settle in your new location.
What We're Looking For
- Engineer-first mindset with a passion for automation
- Strong sense of ownership and operational responsibility
- Comfortable working across infrastructure, tooling, and software engineering domains
- Effective communicator and collaborative team player
- Continuous improvement mentality and attention to system reliability
Why Join Us
- Build and operate critical platforms supporting trading and technology teams
- Work with modern cloud, container, and automation technologies
- Strong focus on engineering quality, automation, and reliability
- Opportunity to make a direct impact on the productivity of technical teams across the firm
Selby Jennings is a Trading Style of Phaidon International (License Number 16S8194)
Similar Jobs
Explore other opportunities that match your interests