DevOps Engineer

About Trayport

Energy - it is required everywhere, from building things, transporting them or just to read a book at night. Our technology underpins approximately 80% of all power, gas, coal, emissions & freight energy trading in Europe. We are a small company that makes a big impact in the world! At Trayport we believe in investing in our staff; if you are a highly driven person we offer the chance for you to gain further qualifications, developing your career. Being passionate about innovation, our software naturally is based on cutting edge technology, providing you with the opportunity to keep ahead of the curve. Our people are crucial to our future. We recruit talented and innovative people and as such are constantly challenged and inspired by those around us. We employ intelligent, enthusiastic, adaptable individuals and give them the freedom, training and guidance to help them become the very best.

About the Role

Our DevOps Engineers sit within a development team. This person would be part of Operations but work on the requirements for the development team and focus exclusively on helping with product development. The role is part of the Execution team at Trayport, which is currently undergoing a technology modernisation transformation. The team is transitioning from an on-premises platform to AWS, aiming to make the applications cloud-native. This process takes into account the latency-sensitive nature of the applications. There will be other Stakeholders in the role and daily work with Development team members, and InfoSec, to ensure that all changes made to applications and their CI/CD pipelines are designed to security best practices.

Responsibilities

• The DevOps Engineer would lower the number of handovers between the Development and Operations teams, therefore speeding up cycle times.
• The DevOps Engineer would work with other DevOps and Platform members to ensure that changes made within their remit don’t affect the underlying platform or other planned work and are compliant with all applicable policies.

Required Skills

• Cloud knowledge, AWS preferred or other would be considered
• Experience with Octopus Deploy, managing deployment pipelines to automate the release process for applications and service
• Configuring and maintaining TeamCity build servers, creating and optimising CI/CD pipelines
• Azure DevOps knowledge, Git, creating new and maintaining existing pipelines
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm, ideally using EKS
• Good Terraform knowledge

Preferred Skills

• Understand Code signing processes and tooling
• Coding knowledge would be an advantage in PowerShell, C# and C++
• Has worked with VMware in the past
• Knowledge of Observability tooling, Prometheus, Grafana etc
• Database technologies with high availability