Lead DevOps Engineer

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Job Description Summary

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will create, manage and support the full suite of LTX Trading applications.

You will work with development and infrastructure teams to help design complex and secure business critical applications. You will automate manual work while building scalable, highly available, financial systems.

Company Description:

LTX is a next-generation fixed income trading platform incubated within Broadridge Financial Solutions, a global fintech company and a leader in fixed income technology.

LTX brings instantaneous AI-based market intelligence and smarter trading protocols to the institutional fixed income trader. LTX’s goal is to create greater efficiency and transparency in illiquid financial markets while strengthening sell-side to buy-side relationships.

Job Description:

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will create, manage, and support the full suite of LTX Trading applications.

You will work with development and infrastructure teams to help design complex and secure business critical applications. You will automate manual work while building scalable, highly available, financial systems.

Key Responsibilities:

· Support and troubleshooting of LTX Trading applications (including High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Vulnerability Management, Incident Management, Patching and Change management).

· Analyze, provide feedback, and assist in implementation of system infrastructure

· Develop fully automated pipelines for both java and python applications which build, deploy and test across multiple environments.

· Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and delivery both in the cloud and on-prem.

· Automate DB schema creation and test data population

· Immerse yourself in the product’s codebase and architecture, understanding how critical components work together – work with system hardware and software vendors for any support discussions.

· Participate in cross-functional projects, working with others for on-going issues, release schedule and general system administration issues

· Implement tools and dashboards for various services and operations of the LTX Platform includes operational, capacity monitoring.

Required Experience:

· You must be able to write application code or have done system automation utilizing Python or an automation framework such as Chef or Terraform

· Ability to containerize an application and build a process around creating containers and pushing them to an artifact repository.

· Must know how to troubleshoot deployment issues. Emphasis on automating processes and not manual changes.

· Should have a working understanding of CI/CD ideally using Jenkins

· Should understand general networking concepts and how requests are routed to various components.

· Strong experience with UNIX/Linux

· Kubernetes experience, preferably EKS

Required Skills:

· Linux or another similar OS administration experience

· Demonstrated strong operations and service delivery skills, with both onshore and offshore team members

· Shell Scripting (Bash and Python preferred)

· Understanding of Networking Concepts

· Splunk or other equivalent monitoring tool.

· Experience in working in an Agile environment

· Demonstrated support experience of a customer facing application/system

· Working with Cloud hosted solutions, preferably on AWS or Azure

· CI/CD systems (i.e. Jenkins, Gitlab)

· Terraform, Chef or other Infrastructure as Code tools

· Git or other version control system

Preferred Skills:

· AWS, including experience using and supporting applications utilizing EKS, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS (Aurora), EFS

· Financial Systems Support

· Demonstrated strong operations and service delivery skills, with both onshore and offshore team members

· Track record of success in a matrix organization.

· Linux tuning and troubleshooting for performance.

We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective. 

Experience Level

Senior Level