DV Trading

DV Trading

Senior DevOps Engineer

Chicago · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$250kDetected 41 days ago
PythonGoGitKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningAirflowEmbedded SystemsCommunicationArgo CD

About the role

  • You'll work on Kubernetes at scale, a firm-wide observability platform, CI/CD infrastructure, and workflow orchestration.
  • You'll be joining at a pivotal moment: the team is growing, the platform is scaling to meet increasing demand across the firm, and there's no shortage of hard problems to solve.
  • You'll have real ownership from day one - not tickets in a queue.

Responsibilities

  • Drive adoption by onboarding teams, building dashboards, tuning alerts, and scaling ingestion for growing workloads.
  • CI/CD and GitOps: GitLab pipelines, ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployments, Artifactory for artifact management. Build reusable CI components, improve secrets integration, and support trading desks onboarding to the platform.
  • Infrastructure automation and tooling: Build and maintain automation for provisioning, configuration management, and self-service tooling that enables teams across the firm to move faster without depending on DevOps for every change.
  • Platform adoption and support: Work directly with trading desks and development teams to onboard them to the platforms we build. Write runbooks, contribute to documentation, and help build a sustainable support model as the platform scales.
  • Build reusable CI components, improve secrets integration, and support trading desks onboarding to the platform.
  • Work directly with trading desks and development teams to onboard them to the platforms we build.
  • Write runbooks, contribute to documentation, and help build a sustainable support model as the platform scales.

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
  • Observability: Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting.
  • Familiarity with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, or Thanos for scaled metrics, logs, and traces.
  • GitOps and CI/CD: Experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar GitOps tools.
  • Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting.
  • Experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar GitOps tools.

Nice to have

  • Deep hands-on experience operating K8s in production.
  • Cluster lifecycle, troubleshooting, networking, storage, RBAC.
  • Experience with Cluster API, bare metal provisioning, or multi-cluster management is a strong plus.
  • Kubernetes: Deep hands-on experience operating K8s in production.
  • Preferred Skills:

Skills

  • Experience with Kubeflow, Airflow, or ML pipeline orchestration.
  • Experience with advanced Kubernetes networking ( CNI plugins, network policies, service mesh).
  • Experience with Kafka or event streaming platforms.
  • Experience operating on-prem infrastructure (not just cloud) - bare metal servers, IPAM, storage systems.
  • Thoughtful use of AI coding assistants and interest in AI-assisted operational tooling.
  • Why This Role:

Compensation

  • $200,000 - $250,000 USD
  • The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position.
  • Base Salary Range

Benefits

  • Discretionary bonus eligibility
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options
  • Flexible Vacation policy
  • Retirement plan with employer match
  • This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.
  • It represents a good-faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process.

Company info

  • Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
  • Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.
  • Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users.
  • We're looking for a senior level DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact team that builds and operates the infrastructure powering DV's trading systems.
  • This team built the entire platform from scratch in 2025 and now owns it end-to-end.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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