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Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer – Observability & Platform Infrastructure
About the DV Group
Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to 600+ people, operating across North America, Europe, and Asia. Since spinning out from a large brokerage in 2016, DV Trading has scaled independently as a proprietary trading firm, providing liquidity to global markets and hedging solutions for commodity producers.
The group now includes:
- Two broker dealers
- A cryptocurrency market-making firm
- A bourgeoning investment adviser
Overview
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact team that operates the infrastructure powering DV’s trading systems.
This is a greenfield role built from scratch in 2025—you’ll have full ownership of a platform that scales and evolves daily.
- Ownership, not tickets – No queue management; just real impact on infrastructure trading teams depend on. - Modern scale – Kubernetes at scale, GitOps, CI/CD, and full observability—all on-prem and optimized for trading speed/reliability. - End-to-end impact – Your work directly affects P&L-critical systems.
Responsibilities
Kubernetes Platform Operations & Evolution
- Manage cluster lifecycle and bare-metal provisioning via Cluster API. -Oversee fleet-wide upgrades, CNI networking, autoscaling, and disaster recovery. -Execute networking, storage, and RBAC tuning.
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Observability & Monitoring
- Operate and scale on-prem observability stack:
- Mimir (metrics)
- Loki (logs)
- Tempo (traces)
- Grafana (dashboards)
- OpenTelemetry Collector fleet
- Alertmanager
- Drive team adoption via:
- Onboarding dashboards
- Alert tuning
- Scaling ingestion for growing workloads
CI/CD & GitOps
- Build, refine, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement ArgoCD GitOps for Kubernetes deployments.
- Manage Artifactory for artifact handling.
- Improve secrets integration and trading desk onboarding.
Infrastructure Automation & Tooling
- Provisioning/Configuration management (Terraform, Ansible).
- Develop self-service automation tools for teams.
- Reduce dependency on DevOps for every change.
Platform Adoption & Collaboration
- Work directly with trading desks and development to onboard them to the platform.
- Write runbooks, contribute to documentation, and sustain support models as demand grows.
Requirements
Core Skills
✅ 5–8 years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
- Deep Kubernetes (K8s) experience, including:
- Cluster lifecycle management
- Troubleshooting (networking, storage, RBAC)
- Bare-metal provisioning and multi-cluster management (a plus)
- Hands-on observability with:
- Prometheus, Grafana
- Mimir/Loki/Tempo/Thanos (metrics/logs/traces)
- OpenTelemetry (collectors, instrumentation)
- GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and CI/CD (GitLab CI/GitHub Actions).
- Artifact management (Artifactory/Nexus).
- Terraform/Ansible for infrastructure as code.
- Linux & security fundamentals (systemd/orchestration, storage, networking).
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Technical Expertise
- Programming: Bash, Go, or Python for automation/scripting.
- Comfort with YAML and Helm charts.
Soft Skills
- Ability to translate complex systems (K8s concepts) to non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Skills (Bonus)
- Experience in trading firm infrastructure (understanding high-reliability needs).
- Kubeflow, Airflow, or ML pipeline orchestration.
- Advanced Kubernetes networking (CNI plugins, network policies, service mesh).
- Kafka/event streaming platforms.
- On-prem infrastructure management (IPAM, storage arrays, bare metal).
Why DV Group?
🔹 Direct ownership over the platform—no ticket purgatory. 🔹 Run on a world-class stack: Kubernetes, GitOps, observability—all on-prem. 🔹 Greenfield innovation: Resource mapping, AI-driven infrastructure tools, and cutting-edge challenges. 🔹 Small team, massive impact—shape the platform’s future without bureaucracy.
DV is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. No search firms. All resumes submitted must originate from written agreements.
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