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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 $9 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