Dev Ops 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’s Fusion platform is a multi-asset liquidity platform that is driving the transition of TP ICAP’s Global Broking business from voice to electronic protocols. The platform enables clients to smoothly access TP ICAP’s liquidity pools across all products, asset classes, brands and regions. It has been recognized as the OTC trading platform of the year by Risk Magazine

Role Overview

As a Dev Ops Engineer at TP ICAP you will be part of a talented team delivering business critical software for the internal broking division and their external customer base. You will work within the Observability team integrating OpenTelemetry into the Fusion Platform and help build and maintaining Observability Platform Tooling and Capabilities. This role will be an important part in steering the future direction of Observability, setting the standards and guardrails for all Fusion teams and the organisation as a whole building world class Observability at TP ICAP.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Senior Tooling and Automation Engineer to design/build/deploy and maintain an Observability solution to align to the IT strategy/vision.

• Work across Fusion and other Engineering Teams in TPICAP to integrate the Observability solution into the codebase.

• Work in partnership with QA to ensure the delivery of quality software.

• Communicate with governance streams to ensure adherence to and development of process, quality and architectural design

• Deliver against both Functional and Non-functional requirements.

• Take Ownership/Accountability for development of key features and drive to completion.

• Communicate effectively on progress and ensure impediments are raised early to minimise impact on the delivery.

• Take part in incident management to ensure Production defects are rectified based on their criticality and severity and to a sufficient standard.

• Guide and support team in implementation and adherence to Change Control principles

• Ensure inter-project dependencies and projects risks are understood and managed

• Use technical experience to collaborate with architecture to guide software solutions

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Deep and broad experience of AWS Cloud platform and services and ‘DevOps’ principles in general

• Platforms; Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu

• Demonstrate and current experience of hands-on coding or scripting using any of Java, Microsoft c#, Typescript, JavaScript or scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell, or Golang

• Developer tooling; Full stack CI/CD, GitLab, TFS , Jenkins, CloudBees, Nexus

• Knowledge and working experience of containerising application components including writing DockerFiles and container deployment manifests in EKS

• Deep understanding of Jenkins and pipelines as code

• Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible

• Grafana, Prometheus, Opensearch, Logstash, Kibana, CloudWatch

• Experience of working with agile teams

Desired

• OpenTelemetry – instrumentation and use of OTEL solutions

• APM Experience – AppDynamics\ DataDog \ Dynatrace

• AWS OpenSearch\Elastic, and ingestion tooling \ Cribl

• Grafana & Prometheus

• Knowledge of the Broking \ Trading business domain

• Knowledge or application of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)