Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design and operation of mission-critical trading infrastructure in the cloud. This role will own production Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and core infrastructure systems that power real-time trading operations. The Senior DevOps Engineer will work closely with trading, quant, risk management, and development teams to ensure system reliability, security, and performance for applications processing live Bloomberg pricing data and portfolio analytics. This role reports into the Director of Cloud Platform Engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, & maintain production Kubernetes (EKS) clusters running critical trading analytics platforms and live market data distribution systems
- Design, build, & maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ArgoCD that deploy trading applications across development and production environments
- Design, build, & maintain enterprise repository infrastructure (Nexus) hosting Docker images, Python packages, and internal APIs serving 15+ development teams
- Design, build, & maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems using Datadog to provide observability across all trading and risk management applications
- Own incident response for infrastructure outages affecting live trading operations, including certificate failures, load balancer issues, and data pipeline disruptions
- Lead complex infrastructure migrations including database transitions (RDS to Aurora), storage modernization (FSX/EFS), and operating system standardization
- Ensure DevOps best practices (CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, automated testing, documentation) are met
- Partner with business stakeholders including portfolio managers, quants, risk analysts, and development teams to deliver reliable, performant infrastructure
- Own day-to-day operations including triaging production incidents, managing access requests for 50+ users monthly, handling certificate renewals, and coordinating maintenance windows
- Implement security and compliance controls for source code management (Bitbucket), authentication (SSO/SAML), and access management across all systems
- Optimize system performance to address degradation in reporting processes and resource constraints affecting data science workflows
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, documentation creation, and knowledge sharing sessions
- Refine JIRA tickets with technical rationale, acceptance criteria, and risk assessment
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- 4+ years of experience within financial services (ideally investment management or trading operations)
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- 4+ years of experience with AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC, Load Balancers)
- 4+ years of experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar)
- Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker, container registries)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred)
- Strong Linux system administration skills
- Solid scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar)
- Proven track record responding to production incidents in high-pressure environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Nice to Have:
- Experience with GitOps workflows and declarative infrastructure management
- Knowledge of trading systems, market data feeds (Bloomberg), or portfolio analytics platforms
- Experience with repository management platforms (Nexus, Artifactory)
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools
- Experience with certificate management and PKI infrastructure
- Background in database administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora)
- Experience with SSO/SAML authentication systems and identity management
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar)
- Experience with performance optimization and capacity planning for high-throughput systems
- Track record building self-service platforms and internal tooling to improve developer productivity
- Nice to Have:
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What We Do
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Credit, Fixed Income & Macro, Convertible & Volatility Arbitrage, Event-Driven, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets, and Quantitative Strategies.
Talent is the lifeline of Verition's success. Our culture encourages individuals to communicate openly across all strategies and businesses, and we believe there is alpha in integration. We strive to empower our Investment Professionals to act like business owners by making decisions based on a combination of rigorous analysis and an open, creative mindset. We have locations in Greenwich, CT, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, London, UK, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, DIFC, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and an affiliate office in Hong Kong (SAR), China. Verition has an institutional quality infrastructure with a team of over 500 investment/risk and non-investment professionals.
Verition is always seeking ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals that can be impactful and help to drive differentiated returns.
To learn more, please contact us for information at: [email protected]
