Senior DevOps Engineer

About Us:

Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago theDV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016 DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital trading strategies and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users.

Now DV group affiliates include two broker dealers a cryptocurrency market making firm and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview:

Were looking for a senior level Dev Ops Engineer to join a small high-impact team that builds and operates the infrastructure powering DVs trading systems. Youll work on Kubernetes at scale a firm-wide observability platform CI/CD infrastructure and workflow orchestration.

This team built the entire platform from scratch in 2025 and now owns it end-to-end. Youll be joining at a pivotal moment: the team is growing the platform is scaling to meet increasing demand across the firm and theres no shortage of hard problems to solve. Youll have real ownership from day one not tickets in a queue.

Job Responsibilities:

• Kubernetes platform operations and evolution: Cluster lifecycle management via Cluster API fleet-wide upgrades bare metal provisioning CNI networking storage autoscaling and disaster recovery planning.

• Observability: Operate and scale our on-prem observability stack Mimir (metrics) Loki (logs) Tempo (traces) Grafana (dashboards) Open Telemetry Collector fleet and Alert manager. Drive adoption by onboarding teams building dashboards tuning alerts and scaling ingestion for growing workloads.

• CI/CD and Git Ops: Git Lab pipelines ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployments Artifactory for artifact management. Build reusable CI components improve secrets integration and support trading desks onboarding to the platform.

• Infrastructure automation and tooling: Build and maintain automation for provisioning configuration management and self-service tooling that enables teams across the firm to move faster without depending on Dev Ops for every change.

• Platform adoption and support: Work directly with trading desks and development teams to onboard them to the platforms we build. Write runbooks contribute to documentation and help build a sustainable support model as the platform scales.

Requirements:

• 58 years of experience in Dev Ops SRE or Platform Engineering roles.

• Kubernetes: Deep hands-on experience operating K8s in production. Cluster lifecycle troubleshooting networking storage RBAC. Experience with Cluster API bare metal provisioning or multi-cluster management is a strong plus.

• Observability: Production experience with Prometheus Grafana and alerting. Familiarity with Mimir Loki Tempo or Thanos for scaled metrics logs and traces. Understanding of Open Telemetry (collectors exporters instrumentation).

• Git Ops and CI/CD: Experience with ArgoCD Flux or similar Git Ops tools. Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab CI Git Hub Actions or equivalent). Artifact management (Artifactory Nexus or similar).

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and/or Ansible for provisioning and configuration management.

• Linux systems: Strong fundamentals systemd networking storage performance troubleshooting.

• Programming: Go or Python for automation tooling and scripting. Comfortable reading and writing YAML and Helm charts.

• Communication: Ability to work directly with trading desks and development teams who depend on the platforms you build. Youll be explaining K8s concepts to people who arent K8s experts.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working at a trading firm understanding the urgency and reliability requirements of systems that support P&L-impacting workloads.

• Experience with Kubeflow Airflow or ML pipeline orchestration.

• Experience with advanced Kubernetes networking (CNI plugins network policies service mesh).

• Experience with Kafka or event streaming platforms.

• Experience operating on-prem infrastructure (not just cloud) bare metal servers IPAM storage systems.

• Thoughtful use of AI coding assistants and interest in AI-assisted operational tooling.

Why This Role:

• Ownership not tickets. This is a growing team that built and owns the entire platform. Youll have direct impact on infrastructure that trading desks depend on daily.

• Modern stack real scale. Kubernetes at scale a full observability platform Git Ops everywhere all on-prem in a high-performance trading environment.

• Greenfield opportunities. Bare metal K8s advanced observability automated dependency mapping AI infrastructure theres no shortage of interesting projects.

• Small team big impact. You wont get lost in a 50-person platform org. Every engineer on this team shapes the direction of the platform.

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