Senior DevOps Lead - Financial Markets

About the role

A global bank is seeking a hands-on DevOps Lead to head a team supporting its Financial Markets business. The role suits someone who combines strong technical expertise with a clear bias for action, removing bottlenecks, making decisions and accelerating delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and develop the DevOps team, setting clear priorities and driving execution.
• Integrate AI into the DevOps process.
• Build and improve cloud infrastructure using Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and automation to make releases faster and more reliable.
• Work with engineering and Financial Markets stakeholders to turn business priorities into delivery.
• Maintain production resilience, security and operational controls while increasing the pace of change.

Required profile

• Previous financial services experience, ideally supporting financial markets or trading technology.
• Proven experience managing a team and taking ownership of delivery.
• Pragmatic, decisive approach, with evidence of shortening delivery cycles and improving engineering productivity.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Understanding of CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration and production operations.