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Our client, a leading global prop trading firm, are looking for a talented DevOps Engineer to join the Global Delta Fixed Income team.The Global Delta Fixed Income (GDFI) team is responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting systems which are fundamental to our clients success and competitiveness in the current trading environment. These systems include quantitative study environments and data pipelines, the generation/visualisation of trading data and publication of trading signals. They constantly improve these systems, so they are stable, fast and easy to use by their Quants and Traders. As our clients suite of applications expands and becomes increasingly critical to their trading, they have identified a need to introduce a dedicated DevOps role.The successful candidate will work closely with Developers and the Quants to improve their CI/CD process, incrementally enhancing our ability to deploy their systems quickly to production in a secure, stable and scalable manner. There will be opportunities to collaborate with Developers as new solutions are developed to ensure applications are designed with production monitoring and supportability considered from the outset.Job SummaryPart of the GDFI Development teamDevelop and support the build system and continuous delivery infrastructure for Python-based systemsProactively automate to improve the reliability, scalability and supportability of an ever-growing suite of applicationsWork with Developers and Quants to ensure that solutions are implemented with reliability, scalability and supportability as key design requirements from the outsetWork with Developers on source code repository creation and management (Gitlab)Implement monitoring using third-party systems (Checkmk, Grafana, Prometheus) and develop bespoke solutionsWork with GDFI Support to schedule production jobs (Tidal, Airflow, Cron)Take action to ensure our production-critical applications are available from pre-trading sessions throughout the trading day, with minimal downtime and disruptionWhen problems do occur, troubleshoot, identify the root cause and develop preventive solutionsBuild and maintain tools, scripts, and processes to aid in the support of our systemsCreate and maintain documentation for internal useWhat we're looking forBA/BS in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent experienceExperience in Python developmentExperience with Conda Package, dependency and environment managementExperience with version control, build servers and CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab)Strong scripting abilities (e.g. Python, Bash, YAML, Powershell)Excellent troubleshooting abilityExperience working in Linux environmentStrong interpersonal and communication skills for interacting with Developers, Quants and TradersAbility to self-manage, self-motivate and seek process improvement opportunitiesAttention to detail and ability to react to changing prioritiesWillingness to learn new technologies and to propose novel technical solutionsWillingness to participate and provide assistance in the support of our production software when required