Senior DevOps Engineer
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
£ 300,000 / year
Full Time
08-01-2025
Job Specifications
Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary: £250,000-£350,000
The team:
In this role, you will be responsible for a platform that enables continuous deployment of systems throughout the estate. This role is critical in enabling consistent delivery and minimizing the change failure rate of our company's IT systems, identifying, and driving efficiency and reliability improvement initiatives through the estate. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in independently building and developing solutions for continuous deployment, measuring and improving DevOps metrics, and in working with infrastructure and development teams as well as 3rd parties. You will need to work both on your own, with others, and at times under pressure to meet deadlines.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with the Business Engineering team to enhance and support the CI/CD build and deploy pipelines on our multiple target platforms, implement and automate change management controls for in-house developed systems and platforms.
- Support Site Reliability Engineering to improve and unify application and deployment observability and establish practices for Disaster Recovery Testing.
Support the migration from on-prem deployments to the Cloud platform in AWS, working closely with the platform and support functions to ensure a seamless transition and an effective and efficient process.
- Proactively identify faults and SDLC process bottlenecks before they become visible problems. Please make sure to implement solutions to improve reliability and scalability.
- Actively work with business stakeholders, and technology teams to establish standards for measuring and improving our change frequency, time to recover, and change fail rate.
- Where applicable, work with the Business Engineering and other teams to help automate manual and repeatable tasks. Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment and system management.
- Develop and maintain documentation related to system configuration and operational processes.
Skills and Technology Experience
Required:
5+ years’ experience in software engineering involving DevOps/SRE (preferably in a regulated
sector)
3+ years of Python development experience
Understanding of Continuous Delivery
Understanding and experience with measuring and improving common DORA metrics
Experience with Cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes)
Experience with application and platform observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, etc.)
Good reasoning skills
Team player with excellent communication skills
Desirable:
Cloud security experience
Network and monitoring experience
Experience with database management
Proven ability to query 3rd party APIs for integration and data analysis
About the Company
Thurn Partners is a Global Search, Research and Capital Introduction business. Thurn Partners connects the leadership teams of hedge funds, fund of funds, proprietary trading firms, and seeding businesses to unique, business-impactful professionals, in order to scale, diversify or otherwise enhance their business. The firm employs a systematic, research-driven approach to search and advisory, offering services across portfolio management, research, data science and engineering. Partnering with international investors, we... Know more
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