Senior DevOps Engineer

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

TP ICAP has undertaken an ambitious program of modernization and Engineering maturity over the next three years. The program is global and across all divisions and applications. There is a desire to move towards faster, safer and more automated product delivery at scale. A key part of this program is to deliver automated CI/CD pipelines, increase developer productivity, shift left many of the traditional practices and deliver more change into production more reliably.

The candidate will be leading this uplift and modernization of engineering capabilities around automation of development, testing and production delivery for TP ICAPs platforms. The candidate will provide hands‑on as well as thought leadership in designing this strategy as well as executing with a combination of internal and external teams over the next two years. The candidate is able to educate and influence application development teams globally to adopt new tools and practices, and also demonstrate measurable improvements in productivity, time to market and operational resiliency.

The role requires a business minded, highly collaborative, team‑focussed experienced Dev Ops engineer with exceptional communication skills to work with developers and testers in Dev Ops principles.

• Design Dev Ops modernization and adoption strategy incorporating current industry practices and technologies
• Engineer internal tooling to implement automation in software development, testing and production delivery
• Reduce manual overhead involved in software releases by fully automating delivery pipelines that includes testing
• Improve production stability and resiliency through process improvement and adoption of better observability tools
• Support application teams in adopting a consistent set of tools, practices and technology to support an agile delivery model, including automation and incremental delivery of software in test and production environments running in the cloud and on premises
• To operate at scale, engage with vendors and service providers to bring best in class industry practices, speed up internal build as well as accelerate company wide adoption of new tools and practices
• Assist and architect where appropriate solutions using containerisation and serverless technologies
• Drive automation for environment management, logging and monitoring
• To fulfil any additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science
• Over 5-10 yrs experience in practising and leading Dev Ops practice in leading Financial or Technology companies
• Demonstrated experience leading and executing transformation programs involving significant uplift of Dev Ops and SDLC automation capabilities
• Experience delivering measurable process and productivity improvements via Dev Ops investments and driving…