Assistant Vice President - LME Engineering - Devops

We are seeking an Assistant Vice President - LME Engineering - Devops to help build and run the LME's new application hosting platform, driving the adoption of Kubernetes-based technologies and automation tools.

The successful candidate will work within the Deploy Platform team, developing and supporting our strategic private cloud infrastructure, including:

• Building, maintaining, and supporting the Private Cloud Kubernetes solution
• Extending the capabilities of the Private Cloud solution by deploying commercial, open-source, and in-house developed solutions
• Integrating the Kubernetes environment with other on-premises infrastructure and management tooling
• Delivering core platform services to be consumed across the LME infrastructure
• Providing out-of-hours live support for the Private Cloud environment
• Assisting application teams in developing and deploying their applications on the Private Cloud solution
• Supporting the virtualisation team in migrating and running our Virtual Machine estate on Red Hat OpenShift
• Deploying configuration and code changes in all environments, including production and our critical low-latency exchange platform
• Ensuring the security of both the platform and applications being deployed onto it is maintained during all developments

The ideal candidate will have:

• A degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related discipline
• At least 3 years of experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containers
• At least 3 years of experience in DevOps, IaC, or automation tools
• A good understanding of on-premises hosting infrastructure, including x64 servers, networking, and storage
• Experience in managing infrastructure as code and using automation tools
• Broad knowledge of application architecture and associated services

Desirable skills include:

• Managing environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches
• Use and configuration of observability tools - Grafana/Prometheus/Loki
• Integrating with a secrets manager to store sensitive information
• Source code management - BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab
• Automation and templating tools - Helm, Ansible, Terraform
• CI/CD tools, deployment pipelines, and workflows – Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub Actions
• Java, Python programming, shell scripting
• Linux server management - Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora
• Storage technologies, protocols, networking
• Cloud Deployments into AWS, GCP, Azure
• IP networking including multicast
• Low latency application deployment