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DevOps Engineer - PR/596541_1781183160

DevOps Engineer

Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent
Negotiable
Financial Technology
PR/596541_1781183160
DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer - Newcastle | Join a high-performance, next-gen quant platform

Our client, a cutting-edge, technology-first investment firm in Newcastle, looking to hire a DevOps Engineer into a highly elite engineering environment. This DevOps Engineer opportunity sits within a fast-scaling, low-profile firm spun out of a globally renowned quantitative hedge fund, combining deep research, advanced engineering, and institutional-grade infrastructure. As a DevOps Engineer, you'll join a team where infrastructure is not an afterthought but a core driver of performance, working alongside world-class engineers to build resilient, scalable systems from the ground up. This is an outstanding opportunity for a DevOps Engineer who wants exposure to a greenfield environment with real ownership and direct impact on a revenue-generating platform.

ThisDevOps Engineer role is suited to someone with exceptional technical foundations and a top-tier academic background, who thrives in high-performance environments. As aDevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform reliability, working at the intersection of en

gineering and systems optimisation. They are looking for a DevOps Engineer who enjoys solving complex challenges, building clean and scalable systems, and pushing engineering standards higher. If you are the kind of engineer who values autonomy, technical depth, and working with exceptionally strong peers, you will love the pace, ownership, and impact this environment offers.

Key Responsibilities

* Design, build and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure
* Drive automation across CI CD pipelines and deployment workflows
* Own and optimise Kubernetes environments in production
* Collaborate with engineers to improve platform performance and reliability
* Implement monitoring, observability and incident response frameworks
* Contribute to infrastructure strategy and long-term platform engineering vision

Key Skills

* Top tier academic background in Computer Science, Engineering or similar
* Strong hands-on AWS/ Azure/ GCP experience in production environments
* Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration
* Proven ability to build CI CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
* Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
* Strong Linux fundamentals and systems-level understanding
* Experience in high-performance or low-latency environments is a strong plus

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