Test and DevOps Automation Engineer – Fixed Income Pricing and Analytics
D.B. Group3 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Automate high-value QA workflows across APIs, event-driven services, and user interfaces using maintainable regression, integration, and end-to-end tests.
- Own and modernise CI/CD pipelines with automated tests, quality gates, containerisation, deployments, releases, and rollbacks.
- Manage and evolve GCP infrastructure and Kubernetes environments across development, test, and production using infrastructure as code.
- Improve service reliability through monitoring, alerting, operational runbooks, incident investigation, upgrades, resilience work, capacity planning, and cloud cost management.
- Automate test-environment configuration and test-data preparation, including service simulation where appropriate.
- Collaborate with developers, QA colleagues, and platform teams to prioritise coverage, investigate failures, reduce flaky tests, and incorporate performance testing.
- Use AI-assisted development and testing tools to accelerate automation and failure analysis while validating outputs and protecting sensitive information.
Requirements
- Strong coding skills in Java, Python, or TypeScript and experience building automated API and UI tests with frameworks such as JUnit, pytest, or Playwright.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines with TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions; packaging applications with Docker; and deploying to Kubernetes with tools such as Helm.
- Practical experience managing GCP services and Google Kubernetes Engine, or comparable cloud platforms, with Linux, scripting, and Terraform-based infrastructure as code.
- Understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, secrets, and environment configuration.
- Experience running cloud-hosted services, troubleshooting infrastructure and application failures, and using logs, metrics, and alerts to improve reliability.
- Knowledge of patching, upgrades, capacity planning, recovery, and cost optimisation.
- Experience with test design, test-data management, and testing distributed asynchronous systems, including distinguishing product defects from test or environment issues.
- SQL and performance testing experience are desirable.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants or agentic tools and sound judgement regarding their limitations, output quality, sensitive information, and responsible data use.
- Collaborative working experience in Agile teams and the ability to convert recurring manual work into practical automation.
- Financial markets experience is desirable but not essential.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with eligibility to work remotely for part of the working time.
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days.
- Life Assurance and private healthcare for the employee and family.
- Flexible benefits including retail discounts, Bike4Work, and gym benefits.
- Two days’ volunteering leave per year and access to a broad CSR programme.
- Training and development, flexible working, and a culture of continuous learning.
Tech Stack
DockerGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmJavaJenkinsJUnitKubernetesLinuxpytestPythonSQLTeamCityTerraformTypeScript
About D.B. Group
D.B. Group is an Italian freight forwarder and logistics provider offering air, ocean, road, and rail transport, customs brokerage, and supply chain management for global shippers. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Montebelluna, Veneto, it is privately held and operates through 79 subsidiaries with a worldwide partner network. The company delivers end-to-end forwarding and integrated logistics services, from consolidation and warehousing to door-to-door deliveries and trade compliance.