Overview

As a global firm with trading strategies that operate worldwide, we want to create and maintain a globally consistent platform, removing as much work as possible from our trading and development teams when building, developing and running their applications. We are looking for an experienced technical operations specialist, DevOps engineer, or Platform Engineer to join a small existing team and help shape this vision.

The individual will have operational responsibility for several production trading and research environments and will need to understand how our systems work throughout the trading lifecycle, from the front to the back office. The role will require close collaboration with traders, developers, quant researchers, data engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure our production systems are well-understood and properly configured. The individual will also be expected to advocate for operational efficiency and continuous improvement across all deployment aspects, as well as troubleshooting, monitoring, automation, and resiliency.

We are just at the beginning of an exciting transformation project to consolidate and standardise how we run and research our applications inside Maven, and the individual will have the opportunity to shape the future of this platform.

Responsibilities

• Take operational ownership of production trading and research environments, understanding systems throughout the trading lifecycle.
• Collaborate with traders, developers, quantitative researchers, data engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure systems are well-understood and correctly configured.
• Advocate for operational efficiency and continuous improvement across deployment, troubleshooting, monitoring, automation, and resiliency.
• Contribute to a transformation project to consolidate and standardise how applications are run and researched within Maven.

Must Have

• Building systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Designing and programming in a variety of languages and technologies.
• Experience working on legacy code as well as greenfield development.
• Initiative to drive projects to completion.
• Learning and promoting new technologies with best practices.
• Experience automating operations tasks using scripting languages such as Python, including configuration checks, system health monitoring, alerting, and reliability reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to steep learning curves and navigate large volumes of information.

Nice to Have

• Multiple years of server-side development.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Kafka, Prometheus, and other deployment tooling.
• Experience working with traders and automated strategies in a front-office environment to identify and implement operational improvements.
• Knowledge of IT and software engineering tooling such as Git, Jira, TeamCity, Confluence, Ansible, etc.
• Familiarity with SQL, HTTP messaging, and network protocols.
• Experience managing operational risk in a trading environment.

Why Should You Apply?

• An excellent engineering environment where technology is key to our success.
• Flexible work-from-home options, 1 day a week.
• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus.
• Working with a team of high-performing individuals; we push each other forward.
• Informal dress code and good work/life balance.
• Opportunity to have a meaningful impact within Maven and shape a role that interfaces with multiple functions.

Employment Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Professional Training and Coaching

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

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