Lead DevOps Engineer
Broadridge3 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, highly available trading infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Provide technical direction, mentorship, and guidance while remaining a hands-on contributor to DevOps, automation, infrastructure, and platform engineering initiatives.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for Java and Python applications across multiple environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, configuration, database schema creation, and operational workflows.
- Support production systems through high availability, disaster recovery, incident response, vulnerability management, patching, and change management.
- Containerize applications and support deployments using container orchestration platforms.
- Troubleshoot deployment, performance, networking, and infrastructure issues and reduce recurring manual work through automation.
- Develop AI-enabled capabilities for infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, and platform engineering.
- Lead and participate in Agile delivery practices using Jira to manage priorities, dependencies, and delivery tracking.
- Establish best practices for CI/CD, observability, reliability, cloud operations, and infrastructure automation.
Requirements
- Hands-on technical lead experience with experience mentoring and guiding engineers.
- Experience with Agile delivery, planning, prioritization, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, dependency management, and distributed-team delivery tracking.
- Experience using Jira or similar tools and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Linux/Unix administration, operational support, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning experience.
- Scripting or programming experience in Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
- CI/CD pipeline experience with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools.
- Experience with containerization, artifact publishing, infrastructure as code, and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of networking, routing, traffic flow, high availability, resiliency, capacity, and latency in distributed systems.
- Experience supporting customer-facing, low-latency, high-availability, or other business-critical platforms.
- Monitoring, logging, and observability experience, including Splunk or similar tools.
- Kubernetes or other container orchestration experience and hands-on AWS and hybrid-cloud experience, including EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, and EFS.
- Experience supporting financial systems, trading platforms, market data platforms, feeds, or similar low-latency infrastructure, including knowledge of unicast and multicast networking.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor and contributing to AI-enabled automation or infrastructure strategy.
- Proven success working in a global, matrixed organization.
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate, RHCE, PSM, CSM, or ITIL are preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with in-person collaboration as needed.
- Collaborative, engaging, and inclusive workplace focused on employee authenticity, safety, belonging, and professional development.
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About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions builds software and managed services that power investor communications, proxy voting, securities processing, and wealth/asset management for banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, and public companies. Its offerings span data and analytics, governance, and communications platforms sold as SaaS and outsourced operations. Public on the NYSE (BR) and part of the S&P 500, Broadridge was spun off from ADP in 2007 and is headquartered in New York City.