Lead DevOps Engineer

Salary: £40,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• Hands-on technical lead experience, including mentoring and guiding engineers
• Agile delivery experience, including planning, prioritization, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, dependency management, and delivery tracking across distributed teams
• Experience using Jira or similar tools
• Strong communication skills and the ability to drive issues to resolution with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Linux/Unix administration, operational support, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Scripting/programming in Python, Bash, or similar
• CI/CD pipeline experience with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar
• Containerization and artifact publishing experience
• Infrastructure as code and configuration management experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar
• Strong understanding of networking, routing, and traffic flow across distributed systems
• Knowledge of high availability, resiliency, capacity, and latency considerations
• Experience supporting customer-facing, low-latency, high-availability, or other business-critical platforms
• Monitoring, logging, and observability experience, including tools such as Splunk or similar
• Cross-functional collaboration with application, network, infrastructure, security, and operations teams
• Kubernetes or other container orchestration platform experience; AWS EKS is a plus
• Hands-on AWS and hybrid cloud experience, including EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, and EFS
• Experience with cloud or hybrid hosting environments; Azure is a plus
• Experience supporting financial systems, trading platforms, market data platforms, feeds, or similar low-latency infrastructure
• Knowledge of unicast and multicast networking in low-latency or market data environments
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar
• Experience contributing to AI-enabled automation, operational workflows, or infrastructure strategy
• Proven success working in a global, matrixed organization
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate, RHCE, PSM, CSM, or ITIL are a plus

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and highly available trading infrastructure
• Provide technical direction, mentorship, and guidance to engineers while remaining an active hands-on contributor across DevOps, automation, infrastructure, and platform engineering initiatives
• Build and improve automated CI/CD pipelines for Java and Python applications across multiple environments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration, database schema creation, and operational workflows across cloud and on-prem platforms
• Support production systems with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, incident response, vulnerability management, patching, and change management
• Containerize applications and support deployments using container orchestration platforms
• Partner with development teams to understand application codebases and architecture, improving deployment, monitoring, and operational readiness
• Use infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Chef, or Ansible to drive consistency and repeatability
• Troubleshoot complex deployment, performance, networking, and infrastructure issues, with an emphasis on preventing recurring manual fixes through automation
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational workflows
• Identify, design, and help implement AI-enabled operational capabilities for infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, and platform engineering
• Contribute to the strategy for safe, practical, and secure adoption of AI across infrastructure and DevOps practices
• Lead and participate in Agile delivery practices, using Jira to manage priorities, plan work, track delivery, communicate dependencies, and provide clear status across infrastructure and application initiatives
• Collaborate with global teams, vendors, and stakeholders on support issues, release schedules, system administration needs, and platform improvements
• Establish and promote best practices for CI/CD, observability, reliability, cloud operations, and infrastructure automation

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Ansible
• Architect
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Copilot
• Cursor
• DevOps
• EC2
• Flow
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Support
• ITIL
• JIRA
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• Python
• Security
• Splunk
• Terraform
• Unix
• Docker

More:

At Broadridge, we empower others to accomplish more and support career development in a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment. We are hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer for our London location at 12 Arthur Street in a hybrid role. This is a full-time position supporting low-latency trading infrastructure and business-critical financial systems across cloud and on-prem environments, with opportunities to work on DevOps, platform engineering, observability, and AI-enabled infrastructure tooling. We value in-person collaboration as needed and are committed to creating a workplace where associates feel safe, understood, valued, and able to bring their best to work. Broadridge may use AI-based tools to support application review, with human review used for employment decisions.

last updated 36 week of 2026