DevOps Engineer
Who we are:
Pharo Management is a leading global macro hedge fund with a focus on emerging markets. Founded in 2000, the firm has offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, and currently manages $8 billion in assets across four funds. Pharo trades foreign exchange, sovereign and corporate credit, local market interest rates, commodities, and their derivatives. We trade in over 70 countries across Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America as well as developed markets. Our investment approach combines macroeconomic fundamental research and quantitative analysis.
Pharo employs a diverse, dynamic team of 140 professionals representing over 20 nationalities and 30 languages. We have a strong corporate culture anchored in core values such as collaborative spirit, creativity, and respect. We are passionate about what we do and are committed to attracting the best and brightest talent.
This is a great opportunity to join a market leader and contribute to our continued success.
Job description:
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our technology team in London. This role helps build and maintain the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and monitoring that our trading, research, and operations systems run on. It is a hands-on position with a broad remit, offering real ownership and visible impact on how the business runs.
The role sits alongside software developers, data engineers, and infrastructure staff, with support from senior engineers as the successful candidate develops. We are looking for someone curious and methodical, who enjoys understanding how systems fit together and takes pride in making things reliable and repeatable rather than merely working.
Responsibilities will include:
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for internal applications, working with developers to make releases faster, safer, and more automated.
- Support day-to-day requests from development teams, helping developers debug build, deployment and environment issues.
- Support and extend our cloud and on-premise infrastructure, including provisioning environments and managing configuration through infrastructure-as-code.
- Help operate monitoring, alerting, and logging so that issues are caught before they affect users, and contribute to investigating and resolving incidents when they occur.
- Write scripts and small tools to automate manual and repetitive operational tasks.
- Contribute to improving software delivery practices across the technology team.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, providing out of hours support for DevOps related issues impacting critical services.
Required qualities and skills:
- 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or software engineering role, including internships and placements.
- Experience with Git and standard branching and code review workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling, particularly GitHub Actions.
- Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc).
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform.
- Experience working with a major cloud platform (Azure, GCP, AWS).
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls).
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain technical issues to colleagues from non-technical teams.
- Scripting ability in at least one of Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred:
- Working knowledge of Linux and/or Windows Server administration.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Application Insights, or Sentry.
- Some SQL and exposure to relational databases, particularly SQL Server.
- Awareness of security and compliance considerations in a regulated financial services setting.
Work status and location:
Full time in London
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or software engineering role, including internships and placements
- Experience with Git, branching workflows, and code reviews
- Experience with CI/CD tooling, particularly GitHub Actions
- Exposure to containers and orchestration, such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform
- Experience with a major cloud platform, including Azure, GCP, or AWS
- Understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, and firewalls
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical issues to non-technical colleagues
- Scripting ability in Python, PowerShell, or Bash
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Working knowledge of Linux and/or Windows Server administration
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Application Insights, or Sentry
- Some SQL and exposure to relational databases, particularly SQL Server
- Awareness of security and compliance considerations in regulated financial services
What We Do
Pharo is a global investment firm focused on macroeconomic trends with an expertise in developing countries. Founded in 2000 by Guillaume Fonkenell, Pharo manages approximately $10 billion across four funds from our offices in London, New York and Hong Kong. We seek to deliver attractive returns to our investors across a wide range of investment strategies. Our team is led by investment professionals who share a deep understanding of both developed and emerging markets which we have gained across multiple market cycles. From the Tequila crisis of 1995 to the global financial crisis of 2008 and the emerging market crisis of 2013-15, our investment team has been recognised for its consistent ability to successfully navigate even the most challenging market conditions.
