Would you like to be mentored by a CTO who, when working at one of the world’s top High Frequency Trading firms, had a 94% success rate in promoting engineers who worked for them? Now the Chief Technology Officer at an emerging Market Maker in Digital Assets, this person will regularly sit down with you […]
Would you like to be mentored by a CTO who, when working at one of the world’s top High Frequency Trading firms, had a 94% success rate in promoting engineers who worked for them? Now the Chief Technology Officer at an emerging Market Maker in Digital Assets, this person will regularly sit down with you and ensure your career development is as important to them as it is to you.
We’ve teamed up with a Crypto HFT and Market Maker keen to bring in a Network Security Engineer to their high performing infrastructure team. In this senior role you’ll take the lead on the entire Palo Alto estate and will work closely with a DevOps Engineer on security challenges regarding AWS.
If career development is your priority, there aren’t many opportunities likes this in security engineering.
Requirements
- Firewalls experience (Palo Alto preferred but open to any)
- AWS knowledge in a security context
- Linux experience
- Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
Benefits
- Hybrid
- Owner-mentality reflected in equity
- Low hierarchy
- Huge learning curve working with distinguished engineers
For more information, please contact: josh@durlstonpartners.com
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This is an exciting role for a Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS to join the Research Infrastructure Team of a top performing Systematic Hedge Fund based in Central London. This is to join a team 9 engineers globally (and growing) working closely with the research and trading teams to build and support the research and public cloud infrastructure using a combination of on-premises and cloud AWS-based services.
This is an exciting role for a Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS to join the Research Infrastructure Team of a top performing Systematic Hedge Fund based in Central London. This is to join a team 9 engineers globally (and growing) working closely with the research and trading teams to build and support the research and public cloud infrastructure using a combination of on-premises and cloud AWS-based services.
Our client has been one of the best performing hedge funds over the past few years and therefore establishing themselves as one of the leaders in the space, growing over 100% over the past 2 years.
They have a collegiate and flat-structured environment with a strong company culture. Their compensation packages have also been very attractive with bonuses linked to the fund performance + outstanding list of benefits (listed below).
The role:
- Build and support the trading and research platforms on different OS environments – predominantly Linux with some Windows.
- Automation of core AWS services
- Support the release management process ensuring stability of the production environment
- Develop tools to continuously improve the ability to monitor the environment
- Research and implement new technologies
- Co-ordinate with various front-to-back teams to resolve issues
- Some out of hours work will be required (usually performed remotely)
The requirements:
- Expertise with AWS ecosystem
- Experience with Terraform and Ansible
- Experience with container technologies (Docker & Kubernetes)
- Experience automating AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC and ECS/EKS
- Good knowledge of networking technologies in an AWS environment (ELB, Transit Gateway, Route53, NACLs/Security Groups)
- Some Linux sysadmin experience
Benefits:
- Excellent bonus linked to fund performance
- 25 days of holidays (+ carry over vacation day & Holiday Buy/Sell)
- Non-contributory pension of 10.5%
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Income Protection
- Discounted Health Screening
- Company Doctor Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
- Paid year for maternity leave
We will respond to all successful candidates shortlisted for this opportunity within 2 days and would advise all candidates to follow our LinkedIn company page for all the latest opportunities.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer A key technology and research driven systematic market maker, have engaged with Durlston Partners to help onboard a critical position for the business, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. The organisation trades globally, through a myriad of asset classes, leveraging their state-of-the-art systems to execute millions of trades a day that help […]
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
A key technology and research driven systematic market maker, have engaged with Durlston Partners to help onboard a critical position for the business, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. The organisation trades globally, through a myriad of asset classes, leveraging their state-of-the-art systems to execute millions of trades a day that help them keep a competitive edge over the market and similar organisations.
They are a growing company that understands the difference talented individuals bring. Operating with a culture of transparency and minimal bureaucracy, clarity is provided on how your objectives will impact the business, allowing for maximum impact and little interference beyond this.
Some of what you will do:
- You will develop solutions to complex technical problems to improve the performance of our ultra-low latency exchange and liquidity provision services
- Help develop and innovate the team’s CI/CD pipeline, including build and test orchestration
- Monitor and triage production issues, improving the team’s ability to detect and mitigate such issues
- Research, implement, and operate new software and technologies as applicable to the businesses trading and research infrastructure
- You will architect and develop tooling to enable rapid delivery of new features
- You will work in a fast paced, and dynamic environment complementing our existing high calibre team
Skills You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Prior experience in a DevOps, PRE, or SRE position where you’ve had experience taking strong ownership of an operational and development lifecycle
- Strong programming proficiency in Python (other OOPs also considered – Java, C++, Rust, Go)
- Proficient experience utilising Linux operating systems
- Experience with Containerisation tooling (Kubernetes, Docker) highly desirable
- Passionate about solving problems from technology and automation
- Ability to be well-organised but flexible, willing to change priorities as dictated by exogenous events
- Prior experience working with automated trading systems is a bonus
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DevOps Engineer We have partnered with a financial services organisation that is looking for talented DevOps Engineer to join their growing technology team. This individual will be responsible for assisting in key Cloud projects that are at the foundation of their infrastructure modernisation programme. This position will reinforce the businesses technology driven approach and ensure that […]
DevOps Engineer
We have partnered with a financial services organisation that is looking for talented DevOps Engineer to join their growing technology team. This individual will be responsible for assisting in key Cloud projects that are at the foundation of their infrastructure modernisation programme. This position will reinforce the businesses technology driven approach and ensure that their infrastructure is both stable, scalable and on the cutting edge of tech in finance.
This is an opportunity to work in a small team where you’d have plenty of responsibility and impact in a well performing and growing investment management firm.
Some of the responsibilities you will own:
- Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud–native microservices architecture
- Contribute to and help establish development best practices for our infrastructure
- Implement automation, effective monitoring & logging, and infrastructure–as–code
- Cloud Infrastructure design, deployment, change management and ongoing support (AWS)
- Implement and roll out change management processes, governance, and security tooling for our Cloud
platform.
What you will bring to the business:
- At least 3 years of practical experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar discipline
- Strong working knowledge of Linux and AWS Services (experience with GCP will be considered.)
- Strong experience in a scripting language (Python preferred, but happy to consider any OOP)
- Experience in architecting and deploying solutions based on security best practices across AWS
- Good exposure and proficiency with DevOps tooling including Terraform and Kubernetes
- Familiar with CI / CD, monitoring and logging best practices for microservices
- Start–up mind–set – happy working in a small team, owning solutions, and flexing where needed to learn
new skills
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Durlston Partners are currently recruiting for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join a crypto financial services firm headquartered in New York.
They operate across HFT: Prop, asset management and venture capital to provide clients with institutional grade access to crypto.
Durlston Partners are currently recruiting for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join a crypto financial services firm headquartered in New York.
They operate across HFT: Prop, asset management and venture capital to provide clients with institutional grade access to crypto.
As a DevOps Engineer you’d be responsible for assisting in key Cloud Infrastructure projects, ensuring that their infrastructure is stable, scalable and on the cutting edge of tech in finance.
Working in a small team you would have lots of responsibility and impact in a growing start-up.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience as a DevOps or Cloud Engineer
- Strong AWS commercial experience
- Linux
- Python scripting
- Implement automation, effective monitoring & logging, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience designing and implementing security patterns and best practices
- Familiar with CI / CD, monitoring and logging best practices for microservices
- Strong communication skills
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