Lead DevOps Engineer

As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will shape and guide the design of scalable, high-availability trading infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. You will work closely with engineering, security, and operations to advance DevOps, platform engineering, and observability, while hands-on contributing to automation and deployment improvements. This role focuses on reliable, secure delivery of business-critical systems and enables AI-assisted tooling to accelerate engineering and operations. You will lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor engineers, delivering impact at scale in a global setting.

• Hybrid work arrangement (BI-labeled)
• Collaboration across global teams
• Focus on innovation and AI-enabled tooling
• Career development and mentorship culture
• Inclusive and supportive workplace
• Industry-relevant certifications considered a plus

• Design and evolve scalable, secure trading infrastructure
• Provide technical direction and hands-on contribution across DevOps and platform engineering
• Build and improve automated CI/CD pipelines for Java and Python applications
• Automate provisioning, deployment, configuration, and operational workflows across cloud and on-prem
• Support production systems with high availability, DR, incident response, vulnerability management, and change management
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with orchestration platforms
• Partner with development teams to improve deployment, monitoring, and readiness
• Use infrastructure as code and configuration management tools (Terraform, Chef, Ansible)
• Troubleshoot complex deployment/infra issues to prevent recurrence via automation
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate automation and workflows
• Identify and implement AI-enabled operational capabilities for automation and observability
• Contribute to safe, secure adoption of AI across practices
• Lead and participate in Agile delivery with Jira, managing priorities and status
• Collaborate with global teams, vendors, and stakeholders on releases and platform improvements
• Establish best practices for CI/CD, observability, cloud operations, and automation

• Hands-on technical lead experience
• Agile delivery experience with Jira or similar
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Linux/Unix administration and performance tuning
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or similar
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar
• Containerization and artifact publishing
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar
• Networking knowledge for distributed systems
• Observability tools experience (e.g., Splunk)
• Kubernetes or other container orchestration; AWS EKS is a plus
• AWS and hybrid cloud experience (EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, EFS)
• Financial/trading systems or low-latency infrastructure experience
• AI-assisted tooling experience (GitHub Copilot, Cursor) is a plus
• Global/matrixed org experience
• Relevant certifications (AWS/CKA/etc) are a plus

• Strong communication
• Mentorship/minding engineering teams
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Python
• Bash
• Jenkins