Senior DevOps Engineer

Belfast City District Source: WhatJobs

£90,000–£130,000

Group Overview

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview

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 ICAPs 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‑focussed 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 premises
To operate at scale, 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 containerisation 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 / Competences

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science
Over 5-10 yrs experience in practising 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
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 (Azue or GCP also considered)
Previous experience in automating and integrating Testing into CI/CD pipelines (unit, integration, smoke testing)
Previous experience working in development teams using Agile methodologies (e.g. SAFe) and practising 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, SonarQubeNexus
Knowledge and working experience of containerising application components including writing DockerFiles and deploying to Kubernetes
Deep understanding of pipelines as code
Observability concepts and tooling; Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch

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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.