Group Overview
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
The DevOps Engineer will be leading the development and adoption of automated software and Infrastructure delivery for TP ICAP’s platforms
The role requires a business minded, highly collaborative, team-focussed DevSecOps engineer with exceptional communication skills to work with developers in DevOps principles.
Role Responsibilities
· 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 on-premise and cloud
· Engineer tooling required for CI/CD and observability to provide guidance on industry best practices for software deployment and development
· Assist and architect where appropriate Microservices using containerisation and serverless technologies
· Be the key automation driver 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 and ‘DevOps’ principles in general
· Platforms; Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu
· Programming language, proficiency in one of the following along with a working knowledge on the other, C# (.NET Framework/Core), Python, Java, JavaScript (Node.js), Ruby, C++
· Proficiency in at least one of the following scripting languages; Python, GO, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy
· Developer tooling; Full stack CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, CloudBees, Sonatype Nexus
· Knowledge and working experience of containerising application components including writing DockerFiles and container deployment manifests in EKS
· Deep understanding of pipelines as code
· Opensearch, Cribl, Logstash, Kibana, Fluentbit, Grafana, CloudWatch
· Experience of working with agile teams
Desired
• Understands ideas and has a viewpoint on the markets and economy
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders outside of the immediate department ‘to get the job done’
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach
• Shows evidence of being comfortable working in fast paced or pressured environments
