Staff Kubernetes Engineer

Job Title

Staff Kubernetes Engineer

Job Description

So, who are we?

Hello, we're IG Group. We are a publicly-traded FTSE250 FinTech company who run mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.

We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. We're global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. We're hungry to move faster, ship better product for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently in order to create better experiences for our customers.

We work in cross-functional teams and are laser focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth.

Your role in the Team's Success

Our Purpose

Join the Platform team as an Staff Engineer! Become the one that defines, implements, and documents the Cloud integration process, and provides automation of it in the spirit of CI/CD, and Infrastructure as A Code.

Your role in the Team

• Design, deploy, and manage containerized applications using EKS, ECS, and Nomad.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Optimize Kubernetes clusters for performance, cost, and security.
• Define and enforce best practices for container security, networking, and observability
• Implement auto-scaling solutions using Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, or custom scaling policies.
• Support multi-cloud and hybrid cloud container strategies.
• Conduct performance benchmarking and capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to container orchestration and workload performance.
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and SRE teams to enhance the container platform.
• Experience with service mesh solutions (Istio, Consul, Linkerd) and container networking.
• Hands-on experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux) and Helm.
• Manage the containerisation environments with tools such as Terraform and Terraform CDK and others.
• Work closely with the Cloud Engineering team.
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Kubernetes Platform Engineer should design and automate the process with proper tools.
• Build Manage and maintain multitenant EKS/Nomad clusters
• Developing appropriate DevOps channels throughout the organization.
• Evaluating, implementing and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Establishing a continuous build environment to accelerate software deployment and development processes.
• Engineering general and effective processes.
• Helping operation and development teams to solve their problems.
• Handling cloud-based environments - Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Handling automated deployment CI/CD tools
• Supervising, Examining and Handling technical operations.
• Providing a DevOps Process and Operations.
• Capacity to handle teams with leadership attitude.
• Great focus on developer experience.
• Work in an international multicultural environment.
  
  

Who we’re looking for?

You’re curious about things like the client experience, the rapid developments in tech, and the complex world of fintech regulation. You’re also a confident, creative thinker with a knack for innovating. We know that you know every problem has a solution. Here, you can try new ideas and lead the way in creating inspiring experiences for our clients and everyone around you.

We don’t fit the corporate stereotype. If you want to work for a traditional, suit-and-tie corporate that just gives you a pay cheque at the end of the month, we might not be for you. But, if you have that IG Group energy and you can stand behind what we believe in, let’s raise the bar together.

What You’ll Need For This Role

• 14 + years of experience of which at least 5 years in design and administering complex production Kubernetes platforms. (CKA and or CKAD certifications desired)
• 4+ years of experience in Infrastructure As Code (Terraform/Ansible/CDK/Pulumi).
• Experience with Hashicorp Nomad.
• Must have DevSecOps skills required (CI\CD, Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab,Artifactory, Git ,etc.)
• Solid working knowledge of networking technologies.
• Solid working knowledge of AWS or GCP.
• Good understanding on the IaaS, PaaS layers.
• Drive initiatives to identify right set of cloud technologies/ provider to be used for specific type of solutions and drive the effort to templatize and automate those technologies to be used at scale in all products and applications across the organization.
• Define and implement the relevant monitoring and alerting.
• Write and maintain technical documentation, for internal use and for other stakeholders.
• Experience on leading the design and architecting of Kubernetes ecosystem, including competing technologies (deployment, configuration, scaling and management of containerized applications).
• Experience in building secure and optimized docker images.
• Experience with managed Kubernetes services, EKS (preferred) or GKE.
• Bash or any scripting language and preferably Python or Go.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or AWS Certified Kubernetes Specialist. (preferred)
  
  

How You’ll Grow

When you join IG Group, we want you to have more than a job – we want you to have a career. And you can. If you spot an opportunity, we want you to chase it. Stretch yourself, challenge your self-beliefs and go for the things you dream of. With internal and external learning opportunities, and the tools to help you skyrocket to success, we’ll support you all the way.

And these opportunities truly are endless because we have some bold targets. We plan to expand our global presence, increase revenue growth, and ultimately deliver the world’s best trading experience. We’d love to have you along for the ride.

How We Work

We try to take a thoughtful approach to our ways of working as a company. We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office -- which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other. When it comes to how we deliver, there are 5 things we want everyone to do to drive high performance, better learning and career satisfaction:

• Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm
• Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes
• Champion the client: Understand and prioritise client's needs
• Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;
• Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback
  
  

We believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We're committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realise our vision and strategy, that's why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey. Learn more about our D&I approach here.

The Perks

Your growth fuels our success! Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.

Benefits

As well as having the chance to attend regular social events and join special-interest groups, you get an attractive selection of benefits working with IG:

• Matched giving for your fundraising activity
• Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities
• Performance-related bonuses
• Pension, insurance and medical plans
• Career-focused technical and leadership trainings in-class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform
• Contribution to gym memberships and more
• A day off on your birthday
• Two days volunteering leave per year
  
  

Learn more about the Perks here!

Join us for this exciting journey. Apply now!

Number of openings

Multiple