Senior DevOps with AWS

Project Description:

Our client is a global provider of financial market data, managing multiple change programs to deliver high-quality software that connects financial markets worldwide through real-time, high-frequency, low-latency data management systems. These projects are technically demanding and operate in a dynamic environment.

The Real-Time division has initiated a Cyber Security Issues Remediation program to address critical security vulnerabilities across its cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. The objective is to remediate identified security issues, harden CI/CD pipelines, implement security best practices, and strengthen the overall security posture of the Real-Time platform on AWS.

Responsibilities:

- Identify and resolve security vulnerabilities in AWS infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support automated and secure software delivery.
- Deploy and manage applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Manage secrets, privileged access, and artifact repositories.
- Implement security, monitoring, logging, and disaster recovery best practices.
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to improve platform reliability and security.
- Support cloud migrations and infrastructure hardening initiatives.

Mandatory Skills Description:

- Strong experience in DevOps engineering 
- Experience with AWS security services and compliance frameworks
- Strong experience containerizing applications using Docker
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters (preferably Amazon EKS)
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault and PAM (Privileged Access Management)
- Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions
- Experience implementing automated build, test, deployment, and release pipelines

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- Hands-on experience in using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
- Familiarity with financial services / clearing / trading platforms