Senior Devops Engineer- London

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Devops Engineer to work for our client within the Banking sector. This is initially a 12 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in London.

We are looking for an application DevOps engineer responsible for developing and supporting regulatory risk solutions across fixed income, currencies, commodities and equities. The role will focus on managing and improving a large-scale risk calculation plant used for end-of-day and on-demand risk generation, with emphasis on production stability, application resiliency, capacity management, tooling and regulatory compliance.

The member will work closely with globally dispersed developers, DevOps, release management, Quartz DevOps, Technology Infrastructure and business-aligned risk teams to support scalable risk reporting and generation services. The environment is primarily Quartz, the bank’s next generation trading and risk platform, with development taking place largely in Python and some C++ for high-performance components.

Responsibilities:

• Providing DevOps expertise and leadership for effective management of application infrastructure and large risk plants
• Supporting end-of-day and on-demand risk generation, with a focus on stability, resiliency and operational control
• Planning and executing failovers in line with application and infrastructure requirements
• Collaborating with various stakeholders , Quartz DevOps and Technology Infrastructure on weekday and weekend activities
• Improving tooling, monitoring and automation to support production stability and reduce manual operational effort
• Acting as a regional point of contact as the SFRC / Risk Horizontal capability expands globally