DevOps Engineer

The FIC team is responsible for providing real time, firm wide risk and P&L for Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX. We are running a service mesh on a Kubernetes cluster. This is a hands-on role, helping deploying and supporting the growing number of services we run. Candidates must have experience with modern cloud technologies.

This is a unique opportunity to join one of the leading hedge funds in the world and enter the fast-growing world of FinTech, learning from the best in the field how it is done at the highest levels. We offer a fast-paced environment with excellent international growth opportunities and exposure to world-class financial technologies and global markets.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Take part in managing multiple k8s clusters, including upgrades, scaling, monitoring, resolving production issues, etc.

• Help developers and quants deploy new services, including writing Kustomize manifests and build pipelines.

• Advise developers on best practices for observability, metrics, logging, and tracing.

• Configure Istio for a microservices environment, including routing, mirroring, A/B deployments, and circuit breakers.

• Set up alerts with Prometheus and help troubleshoot in a microservice environment.

• Implement CI/CD using Jenkins, Argo CD, and GitOps.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Expert level with Kubernetes and Docker, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.

• Experience with tracing, e.g., Jaeger/OpenTelemetry.

• Experience with monitoring/metrics, e.g., Prometheus, Thanos.

• Experience with the Grafana LGTM stack (Tempo, Loki, Grafana).

• Experience with Kustomize/Helm.

• Experience with ArgoCD and Argo Workflows.

• Coding skills in Python and Bash.

• GitOps.

• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.

• Self-starter able to execute independently, on a deadline, and under pressure; good at multitasking.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with EKS.

• Experience with AWS.

• Experience with service meshes (Istio).

• Experience with Jenkins and Jenkins pipelines/Groovy.

• Experience with the CNCF landscape.

• Familiarity with SRE terminology, SLOs/SLIs, etc.

Nice to have:

• Experience with GCP.

• Experience with Terraform.

• Experience with Skaffold.

• Experience running databases on Kubernetes (MongoDB, Postgres).

• Experience running multicloud workloads.