Head of DevOps Tooling Engineering
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Posted on:
16 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Shift Pattern:
Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom)Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Corporate Grade:
C - Vice PresidentReporting Line:
(UK Division) Information TechnologyLocation:
UK-LondonWorker Type:
PermanentAbout the London Metal Exchange and LME Clear:
The London Metal Exchange is the worldcentrefor industrialmetalstrading. Most of the worlds global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LMEs three trading platformstotalling$18 trillion 178 million lots and 4 billiontonneswith a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots in 2024. All trades areclearedand settled by LME Clear.
Participants can transfer or take on price risk againstaluminium copper nickel tin zinc lead molybdenum cobalt lithium steel scraprebarand hot-rolled coil as well as aluminaaluminiumpremiumsand alloys.
The LME and LME Clear are HKEX Group companies.
OverallPurpose of Role:
The Head of DevOps Tooling leads the strategic direction implementation and optimisation of DevOps practices and tooling across the organisation. Thisis a hands-onengineeringroleresponsible for ensuring scalable secure and reliable software delivery pipelinessupportinginfrastructure automation and platform resilience.The role holderwill managea team of DevOps Tooling Engineersdefiningtooling standards and drive continuous improvement across CI/CD cloud infrastructure and monitoring systems.
This role will work closelyand collaborativelywith all IT functions todefine and execute the LME-wideDevOps tooling strategy and roadmap and to continuously push innovation in all areas of thebusiness.The role expects the candidate to be able to work in a fast-paced environment and havea problem-solving mindset withan in-depth understanding of complex IT systems from deployment and configuration as well as support and maintenance perspective.
The role sits within the DevOps Tooling Team reporting directly to theLME Trading Chief Technology Officer.
Responsibilities:
Strategy & Leadership
Define and execute the company-wide DevOps tooling strategy and roadmap.
Lead DevOps and platform engineering teams acrossteams.
Align tooling and automation practices with business delivery goals.
Monitor emerging trends and recommend technical direction for modernDevSecOpstooling and patterns.
Tooling & Infrastructure
Oversee CI/CD pipeline governance using tools like Jenkins GitLab CI/CDCircleCI.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) withe.g.Terraform Ansible.
Provide the toolingsuite to manage container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes OpenShift).
Manage migration ofDevOpstooling ontothePrivateCloudsolution.
Monitoring & Reliability
Ensure robust monitoring alerting and incident response using Grafana ELK Stack.
Standardise incident management and recovery strategies.
Security & Compliance
EmbedDevSecOpspractices and automate compliance checks.
Collaborate with security teams tomaintainplatform security and auditing.
Collaboration & Communication
Partner with engineering product QA and security teams to streamline releasesand implement firm adherence to SDLCguardrails.
Represent DevOps metrics and decisions at leadership level.
Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:
Certifications like MSCE RHCE MCSA or OCA would be desirable
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)desirable
Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role:
Experience in high-availability systems and global infrastructure.
Strong troubleshooting and analytical capabilities.
Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers.
Personal Qualities:
Proactively seek out and learn new skills and technologies
A strong teamwork ethic with a proven ability to work collaboratively
Self-motivated accountable and proactive
Outstanding communications and interpersonal capabilities both written and verbal with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely
The ability to provide technical leadership to others balancing directive coaching and facilitative leadership styles
Ability to troubleshoot and navigate technical blockers.
The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education ethnicity race sex gender identity expression and reassignment nation of origin age languages spoken colour religion disability sexual orientation and doing so we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.
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