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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Department Overview:
Our Technology Infrastructure team operates globally and is responsible for every aspect of the firm's hybrid platform. This ranges from our EUC/Office environments to Trading and Core service Co-Location Data Centres, and extends to Public Cloud, delivering top-tier technology services to a dynamic and demanding Trading organisation.
In addition to meeting the round-the-clock operational demands of the platforms, we continuously evolve and transform our platforms to maintain a competitive edge that our business requires. We innovate to provide valuable solutions and leverage our skilled Technology teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements.
Role Overview:
The AI DevOps Engineer is a very technical, hands-on role, responsible for end to end delivery and operations of our DevOps environments. They will be joining the team as we lead an ambitious technology modernisation journey, moving to greater adoption of AI, microservices and public cloud. We’re continuing to evolve our global infrastructure - spanning multiple global data centres - into a modern hybrid architecture that leverages both existing on-prem and multi-cloud environments and capabilities across Azure and AWS.
Over the past four years, we've modernised our core trading systems and introduced a range of key technologies including AI, Kubernetes, Kafka, ELK, Prometheus, and more. As we expand and enhance the platforms, our focus is on automating and standardising to ensure consistency, scalability and reliability across all environments.
Experiences and Skills Required:
Experience, skills required:
Must have:
Nice to have, but willing to learn otherwise:
About You:
We’re looking for a very strong individual contributor who is passionate about emerging technologies. You’ll need to be comfortable working in a very dynamic, fast-paced environment. Enabling the business is our number one priority – this means working on any part of the delivery stack, from routine o/s IaC, to documentation, instrumentation all the way to automating work through Python microservices or LangChain based agents.
You should be passionate about AI and other emerging technology trends, innovations and directions, and eager to suggest and implement new solutions to enhance our technology performance. You should also understand the need for rapid delivery while appreciating business risk and constraints to ensure adherence to service levels.
The candidate should have extensive experience working both independently and as part of a diverse team, meeting both broad and specific project/BAU objectives. This role requires excellent organisational skills, open communication, and a collaborative approach.
Your commitment to continuous improvement should be evident, both in learning from others and sharing knowledge to enhance our team's capability and function.
BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.
