DevOps Engineer – Hedge Fund – Glasgow – Hybrid (3-4 days onsite) – up to £120k + Bonus Becoming frustrated with the bureaucratic processes of traditional banking? Spanning across 4 continents and managing in excess of $10 Billion our client is a successful, Systematic and Discretionary hedge fund trading across traditional markets that prioritises efficiency, […]
DevOps Engineer – Hedge Fund – Glasgow – Hybrid (3-4 days onsite) – up to £120k + Bonus
Becoming frustrated with the bureaucratic processes of traditional banking?
Spanning across 4 continents and managing in excess of $10 Billion our client is a successful, Systematic and Discretionary hedge fund trading across traditional markets that prioritises efficiency, innovation, and results above all else. They believe in getting things done quickly and effectively, without unnecessary red tape or bureaucracy.
Based out of a newly renovated office in the heart of Glasgow and situated within a new and dynamic platform team our client is looking for a DevOps engineer with a keen interest in managing, maintaining and enhancing distributed systems.
You’ll be responsible for for both the maintenance and build out of new AWS capabilities for the infrastructure behind a critical risk platform, which serves as the foundation for the software and services utilised by front-office and middle-office departments across the funds offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Geneva and Dubai.
The Role
- Enhance the service orchestration process to ensure its efficiency
- Devise and develop new monitoring tools for the platform to improve its performance
- Take ownership of the CI tooling for the firm’s software to ensure its stability
- Collaborate with other dev teams to consult on best practices for structuring and deploying services
- Build efficient tools and processes to help the team deploy software more safely and effectively
Essential Skills
- 3+ years in a DevOps Engineer or SRE.
- Experience with at least one public cloud provider (ideally, AWS)
- Exposure to some form of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes or Openshift).
- Some level of scripting experience in either Python, Bash or Powershell.
- Passion for building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and performant services.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to work in a fast paced, constantly changing environment, and prioritise work accordingly.
Why work for this firm?
- An opportunity to work for one of Glasgow’s small pool of buyside firms.
- Competitive salary up to £120k + discretionary bonus.
- Work within a brand new function within the firm, with lots of scope for ownership and breaking new ground with cutting edge technology.
- Excellent work/life balance, with 1-2 WFH days per week
- A newly renovated office in the heart of Glasgow, with a fully stocked bar, and a roof terrace with incredible views of the city.
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Platform Engineer Are you becoming frustrated by the bureaucratic processes and slow-moving nature of traditional banking? Spanning across 4 continents and managing in excess of $10 Billion our client is a successful hedge fund that prioritises efficiency, innovation, and results above all else. They believe in getting things done quickly and effectively, without unnecessary red […]
Platform Engineer
Are you becoming frustrated by the bureaucratic processes and slow-moving nature of traditional banking?
Spanning across 4 continents and managing in excess of $10 Billion our client is a successful hedge fund that prioritises efficiency, innovation, and results above all else. They believe in getting things done quickly and effectively, without unnecessary red tape or bureaucracy.
Based out of a newly renovated office in the heart of Glasgow our client is looking for an engineer with a keen interest in managing, maintaining and enhancing distributed systems.
You’ll be responsible for the maintenance of the firm’s platform infrastructure, which serves as the foundation for the software and services utilised by front-office and middle-office departments.
The role
- Enhance the service orchestration process to ensure its efficiency
- Devise and develop new monitoring tools for the platform to improve its performance
- Take ownership of the CI tooling for the firm’s software to ensure its stability
- Collaborate with other dev teams to consult on best practices for structuring and deploying services
- Build efficient tools and processes to help the team deploy software more safely and effectively
Essential Skills
- >3 years in a Developer, DevOps or SRE role using a high-level programming language.
- Exposure to some form of containerisation is preferable.
- Passion for building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and performant services.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to work in a fast paced, constantly changing environment, and prioritise work accordingly.
If this sounds like you, apply now for immediate feedback. We will reply to all shortlisted candidates within 2 working days.
We also recommend all interested candidates to follow our page – Durlston Partners – to keep posted with all the latest opportunities in the buy side / FinTech / AI / Tech space.
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Job Title: Senior DevSecOps Engineer Company: FinTech / Hedge Fund start-up Reports to: Head of DevSecOps About the Company: This FinTech start-up offers institutional clients a sophisticated algorithmic trading and execution service for digital assets on both centralized and decentralized platforms. Led by a leadership team with decades of experience at top tier banks, […]
Job Title: Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Company: FinTech / Hedge Fund start-up
Reports to: Head of DevSecOps
About the Company:
This FinTech start-up offers institutional clients a sophisticated algorithmic trading and execution service for digital assets on both centralized and decentralized platforms. Led by a leadership team with decades of experience at top tier banks, the company brings a high level of professionalism to the crypto space.
Job Description: As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and maintenance of the company’s infrastructure. You will work to safeguard the company’s reputation by implementing best practices for Identity and Access Management, Encryption, Vaulting, and Security. You will ensure that the infrastructure is secure by design and is regularly tested and audited. Additionally, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline for infrastructure and applications, and troubleshoot any issues that may arise with the infrastructure and application deployments.
Required Experience:
- Demonstrated experience in regulated industries, creating and safeguarding infrastructure and applications through automated monitoring and efficient recovery processes.
- Expertise in designing the full technical stack, including AWS and third-party services.
- Familiarity with AWS
- Automated builds of secure Linux and AWS EKS environments.
- Terraform, MS Active Directory for SSO and Federated Identity.
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DevOps Engineer – London – £150k + Bonus Durlston Partners are currently recruiting on behalf of a client within the insurance sector to find a DevOps engineer to join their team permanently in London. The firm is a pension insurance provider who spun out of a leading investment bank in the early 2000’s. Run like […]
DevOps Engineer – London – £150k + Bonus
Durlston Partners are currently recruiting on behalf of a client within the insurance sector to find a DevOps engineer to join their team permanently in London.
The firm is a pension insurance provider who spun out of a leading investment bank in the early 2000’s. Run like a boutique hedge fund, they apply systematic trading infrastructure to pension funds to yield better returns with less risk, recording $1 billion dollar returns in 2021.
They currently have an opportunity for a talented engineer to join them on a new phase where they are building out an entirely greenfield cloud infrastructure to support the whole company.
From day one you’ll join a tight-knit team where you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to automation, testing and reliability.
Technical stack
- AWS, Azure
- Terraform
- Python, Rust
- Postgres, Clickhouse
Required Skills
- Advanced analytical skills (typically evidenced by a Bsc in Maths, Physics or Computer Science)
- Applied programming skills (Python, Rust or C++)
- AWS Cloud development and Architecture experience (experience on a cloud migration project is highly desirable)
Based in Central London they currently operate with a hybrid working policy, typically 2-3 days in the office per week.
Please apply below for further information on the role and compensation details, I will get back to all successful candidates within 48 hours.
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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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