DevOps Engineer

Job Description

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.