Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer in SwapClear, you will advance automated, scalable CI/CD and cloud-based deployment for a high‑scale derivatives clearing platform. You’ll partner with development teams to streamline releases, drive modern DevOps practices, and explore AI-assisted automation to boost developer productivity. This role combines hands-on engineering with mentoring in a globally distributed, innovation‑driven environment. You’ll contribute to reliability, security, and continuous improvement at scale.

• healthcare
• retirement planning
• paid volunteering days
• wellbeing initiatives

• Design, implement, and lead CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins)
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management (Ansible, Terraform)
• Develop and maintain containerised applications (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS)
• Monitor and optimise performance, reliability, and scalability (DataDog)
• Collaborate with development teams for seamless integration and deployment
• Implement and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Ensure security and compliance through standard processes and audits
• Troubleshoot issues across development, testing, and production environments
• Mentor and guide team members to promote continuous improvement
• Drive POCs and onboarding of new tools, including AI-assisted development and intelligent automation
• Explore and implement AI-assisted automation to enhance DevOps workflows and developer productivity.
• Support development of intelligent automation tools / agents for: CI/CD execution, Code validation, Incident resolution

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or equivalent)
• Strong hands-on experience in DevOps and Cloud technologies
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred)
• Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, YAML-based pipelines
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
• Scripting knowledge (Shell / PowerShell) and Python (advantageous)
• Experience with Agile / Scrum practices
• Exposure to on-prem to cloud migration (preferred)
• Knowledge of SQL / PL-SQL optimisation
• Familiarity with Control-M or scheduling tools (desirable)
• Experience in financial services / investment banking environments
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Willingness to work in a hybrid model based in London, UK
• Exposure to AI/ML-powered tooling in software engineering or DevOps workflows
• Experience integrating automation or AI tools into CI/CD pipelines or developer workflows

• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• self-motivation
• GitLab
• Jenkins
• Ansible