About this DevOps Engineer role at iSAM
iSAM is an innovative, financial technology firm specialising in quantitative trading, comprised of iSAM Funds and iSAM Securities.
iSAM Securities regulated by the FCA, SFC, and CIMA registered, is a leading algorithmic trading firm and trusted electronic market maker, providing liquidity, technology and prime services to institutional clients and trading venues globally. The firm offers full-service prime brokerage and execution via its cutting-edge proprietary technology, as well as market leading analytics, cleared through the group’s bank Prime Brokers.
iSAM Funds is an alternative asset manager specialising in systematic investing. Each strategy is unique, provides a specialist quantitative approach and is designed to deliver highly diversifying absolute returns for institutional portfolios.
About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and modern software delivery practices. This role involves working closely with developers to design, automate, and optimize deployment workflows, ensuring a smooth and scalable development experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable, and cost-effective AWS infrastructure for development and production environments.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Automate system provisioning and image builds using Packer and Ansible.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Develop automation tools and scripts using Python and/or Golang.
- Deploy, manage, and scale containerised workloads using Kubernetes.
- Design and maintain Helm charts following best practices.
- Configure and manage ArgoCD applications, ApplicationSets, and custom manifests.
- Collaborate with development and other infrastructure teams to improve tooling and deployment workflows.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues.
- Proactively troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, networking, deployment, and application issues across the stack.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience designing and operating AWS infrastructure in production.
- Strong understanding of networking
- Strong hands-on experience with Linux systems administration.
- Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Opensearch.
- Proven experience with Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows.
Personal Attributes
- Clear and affective communication skills
