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DevOps Engineer – Fintech

DevOps Engineer – Fintech

£110,000 + 20%

Quant Capital is urgently looking for an DevOps Engineer to join our high profile client.

Our client is an established fintech on a mission to disrupt the foreign exchange market, applying innovation to tap FX liquidity. They are an established firm backed by a major exchange. The environment is that of Facebook or Google, relaxed open with time to think and make the right decisions. The atmosphere is calm and relaxed with an open dress code. This is a role for techies, those who are motivated by the sharp end of technology and the possibility of making serious money doing something you are passionate about.

The Infrastructure group is responsible for managing and engineering the company’s global solutions for networks, firewalls, servers and storage. The ideal candidate will have experience with the UNIX / Linux operating system and exposure to configuration management tools and cloud services.

The client trades across Equities, Fixed Income, and FX

On a day to Day basis the DevOps Engineer will:

• Senior-level responsibility for the on-premises virtualised/containerised platforms, storage and tools.
• Management of a team of 3.
• A bias for full automation using a modern DevOps/coding test-driven approach ensuring efficient and accurate deployment, monitoring and configuration management.
• Troubleshooting issues and handling incident escalations (occasionally out-of-hours) while promoting production change management processes and procedures.

Support Specialists MUST have:

• Good experience of working with Unix and perhaps, more recently, modern cloud technology
• Substantial experience in the deployment and management of Linux servers
• Substantial experience in the automated deployment and management of Linux servers.
• Knowledge of managing virtual machines (and possibly containers) and perhaps containers using such technologies as KVM, RHEV, VMware or Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Rest APIs, Git, PKI and SSL certificates, RedHat/Fedora, DNS, Mail, LDAP and kernel-level debugging.
• Experience in automation and management of platform configuration using Ansible, Python, Puppet or similar
• Scripting/coding experience

You will be joining a progressive and exciting company committed to excellence. They offer an excellent working environment with on-going training and a structured career path. You can also expect an excellent salary and benefits package.

My client is based in London, 2 days a week in the office