DevOps Engineer | Abu Dhabi, UAE

DevOps Engineer

Brevan Howard Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The Team:
Our Front Office Platforms team help deliver top class technology solutions for our Front Office, working closely with our Quantitative Development teams who partner with portfolio managers and trading teams to provide technology and data-analysis consultancy and development, and is continuing to grow to better support further business expansion. We are looking for a new DevOps Engineer to join the team.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:

• Build out of key platform features for Front Office to be used by many teams.
• Contribute to a modern, automated, cloud native continuous delivered stack.
• Collaborate closely with quant development teams on the requirements for strategic internal products.
• Incrementally improve the security, reliability and cost efficiency of the Front Office platform and infrastructure.
• Automate as much as possible when appropriate.
• Promote best practices across Cloud and DevOps toolchains.
• Dive into a new stack, understand the main concepts and problem solve.
• Understand the nuances and challenges of developer experience for internal developer platforms.
• Understand specific trading team needs, implementing some as reusable patterns.

WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND:

• 2+ years as a technologist such as Software Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or SRE.

TECHNICAL/BUSINESS SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:
Knowledge of some of the below is desirable especially with more years of experience but it is not essential and training will be provided on the job.

• Experience working with any standard CICD technology such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins.
• Understanding of different deployment units - servers, containers, serverless.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Any object-oriented programming language.
• Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless Framework or AWS SAM.
• RDBMS database knowledge such as PostgreSQL.