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Senior DevOps Engineer
About DV Group
Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people, operating across North America, Europe, and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm, utilising its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Today, DV group affiliates include two broker-dealers, a cryptocurrency market-making firm, and a growing investment advisory.
Overview
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a small yet high-impact team responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that underpins DV’s trading systems.
You’ll play a key role in developing and managing Kubernetes at scale, contributing to a firm-wide observability platform, designing CI/CD infrastructure, and orchestrating workflows.
This is a young, self-built platform—the team constructed it entirely from the ground up in 2025 and now owns it end-to-end. You’ll have direct ownership from day one, shaping its evolution as the platform scales to meet growing demand across the firm. Expect hands-on challenges and real decision-making power.
Job Responsibilities
Kubernetes Platform Operations & Evolution
- Manage cluster lifecycle via Cluster API, including fleet-wide upgrades
- Handle bare metal provisioning, CNI networking, storage, autoscaling, and disaster recovery planning
Observability
- Operate and scale our on-prem observability stack:
- Prometheus derivatives (Mimir) for metrics
- Loki for logs, Tempo for traces
- Grafana for dashboards
- OpenTelemetry Collector fleet and Alertmanager
- Promote adoption by:
- Onboarding teams
- Building and tuning dashboards
- Fine-tuning alerts
- Optimising ingestion for scaling workloads
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CI/CD & GitOps
- GitLab pipelines and ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployments
- Artifactory for artifact management
- Construct reusable CI components
- Enhance secrets integration
- Support trading desks adopting the platform
Infrastructure Automation & Tooling
- Develop and maintain automation to:
- Provision infrastructure
- Configure systems
- Create self-service tooling
- Empower engineering teams to deploy solutions quickly without DevOps bottlenecks
Platform Adoption & Support
- Collaborate directly with trading desks and development teams
- Onboard them to our infrastructure
- Write runbooks and contribute to documentation
- Help establish a sustainable support model as the platform grows
Requirements
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5–8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
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Kubernetes:
- Deep, hands-on production experience
- Cluster lifecycle management, troubleshooting, networking, storage, RBAC
- Preferred: experience with Cluster API, bare-metal provisioning, or multi-cluster environments
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Observability:
- Production familiarity with Prometheus/Grafana/alerting
- Knowledge of Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Thanos for scaled metrics, logs/traces
- Understanding of OpenTelemetry (collectors, exporters, instrumentation)
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GitOps & CI/CD:
- Experience with ArgoCD, Flux or similar GitOps tools
- CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or equivalents)
- Artifact management (e.g., Artifactory, Nexus)
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Infrastructure as Code:
- Proficiency with Terraform and/or Ansible for provisioning
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Linux Systems:
- Strong fundamentals (systemd, networking, storage, performance tuning)
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Programming:
- Skills in Go or Python for automation/scripting
- Ability to read/write YAML and Helm charts
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Communication:
- Ability to translate Kubernetes concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- Work closely with trading desks and dev teams that depend on your work
Preferred Skills
- Experience at a trading firm (urgent SLAs, P&L visibility requirements)
- Knowledge of Kubeflow, Airflow, or ML pipeline orchestration
- Advanced Kubernetes networking (CNI plugins, network policies, service mesh)
- Kafka or event-streaming platform familiarity
- On-premises infrastructure operation (bare-metal servers, IPAM, storage systems)
- AI-integrated tools: Thoughtful use of AI assistants for operations
Why This Role?
️ Ownership, not task-tracking – A small team that built its own infrastructure. Your contributions directly impact platforms relied on by trading desks.
🧩 Modern stack with real scale – Kubernetes at scale, full observability suite, and GitOps-first approaches, all in a high-performance trading environment.
🚀 Greenfield opportunities – Drive projects like bare-metal Kubernetes, advanced observability, AI-infused infrastructure, and automated dependency mapping.
👥 Small team, big impact – Unlike large platform organisations, every engineer shapes the platform’s direction and vision.
Equal Opportunity Employer
DV is committed to an inclusive environment and proudly embraces diversity in hiring. Unsolicited resumes from search firms veteered. Only firms with valid written agreements should submit candidates. All other submissions will be treated as DV’s sole property and may entitle DV to execution fees upon hiring.
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