Project Description

Our client is a leading global Financial Market data provider who runs several change programs to deliver high-quality software that connects Financial Markets across the globe in a real-time, high frequency, and low-latency data management chain. The projects are technically challenging in a very engaging environment making the most of cutting-edge technologies covering the domains of Real-Time, Big Data, Cloud, and Machine Learning.

This role is part of the Post Trade engineering team which is a central group focussed on improving the engineering practices, experience and technology usage. The team is also a key part of realising Post Trades' strategy of moving technology platform to cloud provided services - particularly AWS and Azure.

This role will provide Cloud Engineering expertise across multiple application teams; looking to deliver shared solutions to common problems and ensuring best practices across teams moving to cloud.
It might be interesting for Senior Developers/Leads with good problem-solving and communication skills.
The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing common Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions as well as implementing the guardrails in Policy-As-Code (PaC). They will also work on solutions looking to migrate to the Anthos Kubernetes platform. This is a hands on role developing common technology solutions that will be utilised across the domain.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert skills on the development and deploying applications onto AWS and Azure cloud platforms
• Develop common cloud solutions that can be leveraged across group
• Implement standard Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployment scripts
• Implement Policy-as-Code (PaC) rules to enforce deployment policies and standards
• Facilitate the development of common container images for the Kubernetes platform to support standardized development
• Participate as a member in Agile teams, and work with other team members to review user stories, estimate effort to build functionality supporting user stories, and participate in sprint reviews
• Identify and implementing cloud optimisation improvements
• Assisting DevOps groups with tooling to build, deploy and test applications
• Assisting FinOps groups with tooling to understand and allocate cloud consumption costs
• Developing proof of concepts for new usage of technology

Must have

• 5+ years working as a developer - including at least 2+ years working with Cloud technologies
• Experience with public cloud platforms such AWS, GCP and/or Azure - including base technologies like EC2, S3, Lambdas or equivalents
• Understanding of Kubernetes and development of containerized solutions - particularly knowledge of container management platforms like Anthos or Openshift and related tools such as Helm & Istio
• Development and/or scripting languages such as Java, Python, Gradle
• Configuration management technologies like Ansible
• Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code technologies such as Terraform and Sentinel
• Experience with GIT as a version control system

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud based devOps platform such as GitHub or GitLab
• Key management and secrets management such as HashiCorp Vault or AWS SecretsManager
• Application monitoring using tools like Geneos or DataDog
• Cloud FinOps technologies such as Cloudwatch
• Knowledge of database technologies

Languages: English: B2 Upper Intermediate

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