Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Technology | London, England | Full-time Company Description

Market Axess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed‑income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before.

But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to join our team. We are the driving force behind the company’s containerization strategy which covers private & public cloud (AWS). Our goal is to operate and enhance a modern cloud-native platform that spans across clouds and simplifies infrastructure needs for our teams. We operate and build the foundations that enable our teams to build trading applications which move billions of dollars each day.

You should be passionate about technology, specifically Kubernetes, quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on solutions that will affect our mission critical workloads by setting standards, building best practices, automations and ensuring operational excellence of existing and new systems. We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning.

We openly welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions and prior ways of working. Otherwise, how do we innovate, learn, and grow as a team and individuals?

How You’ll Help Take Us There

• Enhancing our platform capabilities such as Kubernetes as a Service, multi-region cluster support & fail‑over and SRE practices
• Build & deliver the infrastructure and capabilities needed to enable application engineers to develop software according to cloud native principles
• Develop and scale engineering best practices for containerized applications across the organization through automations, infrastructure and policy as code
• Partner and collaborate with IT Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Application, and Data Engineering teams
• Focus on improving the user experience for Kubernetes users and iteratively working towards higher degrees of usability and automation
• Relentlessly obsess over how we build, enhance and maintain the trust of the platform users
• Collaborate with Product and Program Managers to maximize the value we deliver to the firm's technology organization

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of operating Kubernetes in Production
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience designing, building, deploying, and automating infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds (AWS preferred, GCP, and Azure) using Infrastructure as Code
• Real world experience with distributed systems, especially Kubernetes; ideally experience with both cloud and/or on‑premises Kubernetes deployments
• Familiarity with Git Ops, Automation and Dev Sec Ops  Pipeline tools
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Helm, Kustomize
• Experience with Service Mesh (e.g. Istio)
• Advanced level of Linux OS understanding and scripting skills
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana and other monitoring tools
• Knowledge and experience with service‑oriented architecture and event streaming (e.g., Confluent / Kafka) and caching platforms (e.g., Redis)
• Understanding of Agile software development practices and operational excellence
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
• Bonus, experience with:
  
  EKS, EKS-Anywhere

What You Can Expect from Us

• Central
  
  Location:
  
  based at our city offices near St Paul's.
• Free Food:
  We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines
• Paid Time Off: 25 days…