DevOps Engineer - Trading Infrastructure

Location: London
Type: Full-time

Our client, a leading global hedge fund, is seeking a highly talented DevOps Engineer to join their core Trading Infrastructure team. This is a rare opportunity to work on mission-critical, low-latency systems that power a world-class quantitative trading platform.

In this role, you'll work on technically complex challenges, help evolve cutting-edge infrastructure, and contribute directly to the reliability and performance of high-throughput trading systems. You'll collaborate across operations, hardware engineering, and development teams to shape automation, tooling, and workflows that support rapid scaling and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation for building, testing and deploying trading platforms.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling to improve developer experience and operational reliability.
• Partner with operations teams to identify inefficiencies and address them through automation and process optimisation.
• Work closely with hardware engineering teams to improve build, test and integration workflows.
• Troubleshoot production and development environment issues.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal systems, tooling and infrastructure practices.

Key Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Python and Bash.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred).
• Hands-on knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible).
• Solid grounding in networking fundamentals (routing, multicast, VLANs, Ethernet).
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, and deliver solutions with high autonomy.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
• Familiarity with C++ and SQL (preferred).
• Experience with containerization and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code, such as Terraform.