Principal DevOps Engineer

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries.  We are 5,300 people strong.  We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview

This DevOps engineer will be leading the implementation of automated software delivery for TP ICAPs platforms, with an emphasis on incorporating testing into the CI/CD process, to deliver change at pace whilst maintaining stability

The role requires a business minded, highly collaborative, team-focussed DevOps engineer with exceptional communication skills to work with developers and testers in DevOps principles. 

Role Responsibilities

• Increase stability and velocity through process improvement and tooling

• Reduce manual overhead involved in software releases by fully automating delivery pipelines that includes testing

• Support the business in adopting processes and techniques to support an agile delivery model Work with architects, developers, testers and operations to automate builds, deployment and release of applications running in the cloud and on-premise

• Provide guidance on industry best practices for software deployment, development, and observability

• Engineer tooling to implement those practices

• Assist and architect where appropriate solutions using containerisation and serverless technologies

• Drive automation for environment management, logging and monitoring

• Engage with vendors and service providers to build strong relationships that can be leveraged by directly influencing products and services in the interest of the company, enabling the negotiation of favourable terms and extracting the best possible use of external resources

• To fulfil any additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Deep and broad experience of AWS Cloud platform and services

• DevOps and SRE principles

• Very good working knowledge of incorporating testing into CI/CD pipelines

• Understanding of various deployment patterns such as blue-green and canary

• Platforms; Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu

• Proficiency in at least one of the following scripting languages; Python, GO, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy

• Programming language with a working knowledge in at least one of Java,  C# (.NET Framework/Core), JavaScript (Node.js), Ruby, C++

• Developer tooling; Full stack CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus

• Knowledge and working experience of containerising application components including writing DockerFiles and deploying to Kubernetes

• Deep understanding of pipelines as code

• Observability concepts and tooling; Opensearch, Cribl, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch

• Experience of working with agile teams

Job Band & Level:

Manager / 7

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Not The Perfect Fit?

Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? At TP ICAP, we wholeheartedly believe in fostering inclusivity and cultivating a work environment where everyone can flourish, regardless of your personal or professional background. If you are enthusiastic about this role but find that your experience doesn't align perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this position or another opportunity within our organisation. Our dedicated Talent Acquisition team is here to assist you in recognising how your unique skills and abilities can be a valuable contribution. Don't hesitate to take the leap and explore the possibilities. Your potential is what truly matters to us.

Company Statement

We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That's why we're building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement. 

Location

UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London