The DevOps / Platform Engineering role requires an experienced senior-level engineer with a proven track record of building scalable, high?performance cloud infrastructure and deployment systems.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for modern DevOps practices and be familiar with recent trends in cloud, containers, and automation. We're looking for someone who works well within a team but is fully capable of independently delivering solutions of significant scope and complexity. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to work quickly and effectively under time pressure are expected.
Equities Technology DevOps / Platform Engineer responsible for:
Supporting a major initiative to migrate a legacy on?prem equities system to AWS
Designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, IAM, and data services
Developing CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test, and deployment workflows
Containerizing applications and managing Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and Docker image pipelines
Implementing ETL infrastructure and data movement workflows to support the cloud migration
Building foundational systems for future BI tooling on top of cloud?based databases
Implementing and maintaining observability tooling (monitoring, logging, alerting) to ensure system reliability
Partnering closely with Java development teams to enhance deployment performance and cloud readiness
Day?to?day support and troubleshooting of platform infrastructure and deployment pipelines
Skills and experience required:
5 or more years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience in high?intensity production environments
Strong expertise with AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.)
Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker
Strong CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
Experience building or supporting ETL pipelines, data orchestration, or cloud data movement workflows
Hands?on experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)
Strong proficiency with automation and Infrastructure?as?Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
Comfort working alongside teams developing in Java
Linux/Unix OS experience
Strong pluses:
Prior experience migrating on?prem systems to AWS
Experience supporting BI / analytics tooling or large?scale reporting platforms
Strong networking fundamentals and familiarity with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka)
Experience with in?memory datastores (Redis, Memcached)
Financial services experience, particularly in equities, trading, or market data systems
Working experience on Snowflake Platform
New York, New York
Jefferies Financial Group Inc., a financial services company, engages in investment banking and capital markets, asset management, and direct investing businesses in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. the company also offers equities research, sales, and trading services; equity finance services comprising financing, securities lending, and other prime brokerage services; and wealth management services to high net worth individuals, their families and businesses, private equity and venture funds, and small institutions.
In addition, it provides fixed income sales and trading services for investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. and European government and agency securities, municipal bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, leveraged loans, consumer loans, securities, markets debt, interest rate, and credit derivative products, as well as foreign exchange trade execution and securitization capabilities, as well as manages, invests in, and provides services to a group of alternative asset management platforms in investment strategies and asset classes.
The company was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation and changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. in May 2018. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, New York.