About the Role
We are seeking a senior-level DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact team responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that powers DV's trading systems. You will work with Kubernetes at scale, a firm-wide observability platform, CI/CD infrastructure, and workflow orchestration. This role offers significant ownership from day one, with opportunities to solve challenging problems on a growing platform.
Responsibilities
- Manage Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, including fleet-wide upgrades, bare metal provisioning, CNI networking, storage, autoscaling, and disaster recovery planning.
- Operate and scale the on-prem observability stack (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Grafana, OpenTelemetry Collector, Alertmanager).
- Drive adoption of observability tools by onboarding teams, building dashboards, tuning alerts, and scaling ingestion.
- Manage CI/CD infrastructure using GitLab pipelines, ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployments, and Artifactory for artifact management.
- Build reusable CI components, improve secrets integration, and support trading desk onboarding.
- Develop and maintain automation for provisioning, configuration management, and self-service tooling.
- Onboard trading desks and development teams to the platforms.
- Write runbooks, contribute to documentation, and help build a sustainable support model.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
- Deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production, including cluster lifecycle, troubleshooting, networking, storage, and RBAC.
- Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting.
- Familiarity with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, or Thanos for scaled metrics, logs, and traces.
- Understanding of OpenTelemetry (collectors, exporters, instrumentation).
- Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
- Experience with artifact management (Artifactory, Nexus, or similar).
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and/or Ansible.
- Strong Linux systems fundamentals, including systemd, networking, storage, and performance troubleshooting.
- Experience with Go or Python for automation, tooling, and scripting.
- Comfortable reading and writing YAML and Helm charts.
- Ability to communicate effectively with trading desks and development teams.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Cluster API
- Bare metal provisioning
- CNI networking
- Storage
- Autoscaling
- Disaster recovery
- Mimir
- Loki
- Tempo
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry Collector
- Alertmanager
- GitLab CI
- ArgoCD
- Artifactory
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Linux
- systemd
- Go
- Python
- YAML
- Helm charts
- Kubeflow
- Airflow
- Kafka
- IPAM
- AI coding assistants
Location
- Chicago
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior level
- 5–8 years of experience
About the Company
- DV Group is a financial services firm founded 20 years ago, headquartered in Chicago, with over 600 employees operating globally.
- DV Trading is an independent proprietary trading firm that provides liquidity to financial markets and hedging opportunities.
- DV Group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and an investment adviser.
Equal Opportunity
- DV is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
