AI DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Our Technology Infrastructure team operates globally and is responsible for every aspect of the firm's hybrid platform. This ranges from our EUC/Office environments to Trading and Core service Co-Location Data Centres, and extends to Public Cloud, delivering top-tier technology services to a dynamic and demanding Trading organisation.

In addition to meeting the round-the-clock operational demands of the platforms, we continuously evolve and transform our platforms to maintain a competitive edge that our business requires. We innovate to provide valuable solutions and leverage our skilled Technology teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements.

🏢 About BlueCrest Capital Management

BlueCrest Capital Management is a global investment management firm with a focus on quantitative trading strategies. The company operates in multiple international locations and is known for its innovative approach to technology and finance.

🎯 The Role

The AI DevOps Engineer is a very technical, hands-on role, responsible for end to end delivery and operations of our DevOps environments. They will be joining the team as we lead an ambitious technology modernisation journey, moving to greater adoption of AI, microservices and public cloud. We’re continuing to evolve our global infrastructure - spanning multiple global data centres - into a modern hybrid architecture that leverages both existing on-prem and multi-cloud environments and capabilities across Azure and AWS.

Over the past four years, we've modernised our core trading systems and introduced a range of key technologies including AI, Kubernetes, Kafka, ELK, Prometheus, and more. As we expand and enhance the platforms, our focus is on automating and standardising to ensure consistency, scalability and reliability across all environments.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery and operations of DevOps environments
• Drive technology modernisation, focusing on AI, microservices, and public cloud adoption
• Manage and maintain a modern hybrid architecture across on-prem and multi-cloud environments
• Implement automation and standardisation to ensure consistency, scalability, and reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements

📌 Required Qualifications

• Very good understanding of AIOps and DevOps, including AgentOps/DataOps frameworks (e.g. LangGraph, Dagster) and OpenTelemetry
• Strong expertise across Azure and AWS, with a solid understanding of AI-native services such as Azure AI Foundry and Amazon Bedrock
• Experience building and deploying AI agents
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with Terragrunt, Terraform, and Ansible
• Strong Python skills
• Excellent understanding of containerisation technologies, ideally Kubernetes
• Experience with GitHub Actions
• Delivery-focused mindset, with priorities aligned to business needs

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience integrating DevOps infrastructure with MCPs
• Experience with infrastructure testing frameworks (Terratest, Terraform Test, Molecule, JUnit, pytest)
• Kubernetes engineering and support across on-prem, VMware, AKS and EKS environments
• Linux and Windows administration and network automation
• Java and/or C# troubleshooting capability
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and/or TeamCity
• Artifact repository management (Nexus, Artifactory)
• Observability, monitoring and tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, ELK, Tempo, Jaeger)
• Platform engineering on Azure and/or AWS
• Data platform experience (Kafka, Redis)
• Chaos engineering and resilience testing (Gremlin, LitmusChaos)

🎁 Benefits

BlueCrest Capital Management offers a competitive compensation package, including salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. The company is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce, ensuring equal opportunities for all employees.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

BlueCrest Capital Management is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their background. The company is committed to providing equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.