DevOps Lead

We are seeking an experienced Team Lead to lead the DevOps team. Along with the deployment and runtime systems, the DevOps team is also responsible for the CI/CD pipelines and the core infrastructure of the Trading platform.

As a Team Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage our production environment globally — combining hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight to drive operational excellence.
Responsibilities and Duties:

- Lead, mentor, and train DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous learning.

- Drive the DevOps strategy, technical roadmap and execution across our global trading production environment, ensuring system uptime, scalability, and performance.

- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery.

- Lead improvements in automation, deployment workflows, and monitoring systems, reducing manual effort and increasing system robustness and agility.

- Ensure production readiness for new exchanges, trading strategies, and
infrastructure changes, coordinating across development, trading, and
infrastructure teams.

- Represent the team in leadership forums, advocating for production priorities, and aligning team objectives with broader business goals.

Qualifications:

- University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

- 10+ years work experience in a DevOps, Systems Engineering or similar role and proven success leading technical operations, SRE, or production engineering teams in real-time or low-latency environments.

- Modern deployment system and orchestration experience and associated CI/CD tooling.

- Strong development skills in Python, Golang and shell scripting.

- Demonstrated experience defining and managing SLAs/SLOs, with a data-driven approach to improving reliability and performance.

- Comfortable leading incident response in high-pressure scenarios and building systems that prevent recurrence.

- Exposure to high-frequency trading or low-latency financial systems is a strong plus.

- Skilled communicator who can align business and technical stakeholders, provide clarity under pressure, and drive cross-functional collaboration.

- Passionate about coaching, developing, and retaining top engineering talent.

- Fluency in written and spoken English.

Originally posted on Himalayas