Senior DevOps Engineer
DV Trading20 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Manage and evolve Kubernetes platforms, including cluster lifecycle, fleet-wide upgrades, bare metal provisioning, CNI networking, storage, autoscaling, and disaster recovery planning.
- Operate and scale the on-prem observability platform, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and OpenTelemetry collectors.
- Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ArgoCD GitOps deployments, Artifactory artifact management, reusable CI components, and secrets integrations.
- Develop automation for provisioning, configuration management, and self-service infrastructure tooling.
- Onboard trading desks and development teams, provide platform support, write runbooks, and contribute to documentation.
- Help scale a greenfield platform supporting high-performance, P&L-impacting trading workloads.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
- Deep production Kubernetes experience, including cluster lifecycle, troubleshooting, networking, storage, and RBAC.
- Production observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting, with familiarity with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, or Thanos and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux and CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with artifact management tools such as Artifactory or Nexus.
- Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible for infrastructure as code and configuration management.
- Strong Linux fundamentals, including systemd, networking, storage, and performance troubleshooting.
- Programming experience with Go or Python and ability to work with YAML and Helm charts.
- Ability to communicate directly with trading desks and development teams and explain Kubernetes concepts to non-experts.
- Preferred: trading-firm experience, Kubeflow, Airflow, advanced Kubernetes networking, Kafka or event streaming, on-premises infrastructure, and interest in AI-assisted operational tooling.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- HSA, FSA, and dependent care options.
- Employer-paid group term life and AD&D insurance, with voluntary LTD, life, and AD&D options.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Retirement plan with employer match.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache AirflowApache KafkaGitHub ActionsGoGrafanaHelmKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform
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About DV Trading
DV Trading is a privately held proprietary trading firm that makes markets and deploys its own capital across equities, futures, options, and commodities. Headquartered in Chicago and founded in 2006, it operates globally and spun out of a large brokerage in 2016. The firm provides liquidity to exchanges and offers hedging solutions to commodity producers and users; affiliates include broker-dealers and a cryptocurrency market-making business.