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title: 'Senior DevOps Engineer at DV Trading'
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# Senior DevOps Engineer at DV Trading

- **Company:** DV Trading
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dvtrading/jobs/4711521005

## Job description

About Us:

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. 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. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview:

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. You'll work on Kubernetes at scale, a firm-wide observability platform, CI/CD infrastructure, and workflow orchestration.

This team built the entire platform from scratch in 2025 and now owns it end-to-end. 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.

Job Responsibilities:

- Kubernetes platform operations and evolution: Cluster lifecycle management via Cluster API, fleet-wide upgrades, bare metal provisioning, CNI networking, storage, autoscaling, and disaster recovery planning.

- Observability: Operate and scale our on-prem observability stack — Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), Grafana (dashboards), OpenTelemetry Collector fleet, and Alertmanager. 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.

Requirements:

- 5–8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.

- Kubernetes: 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.

- Observability: 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).

- GitOps and CI/CD: Experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar GitOps tools. Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent). Artifact management (Artifactory, Nexus, or similar).

- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and/or Ansible for provisioning and configuration management.

- Linux systems: Strong fundamentals — systemd, networking, storage, performance troubleshooting.

- Programming: Go or Python for automation, tooling, and scripting. Comfortable reading and writing YAML and Helm charts.

- Communication: Ability to work directly with trading desks and development teams who depend on the platforms you build. You'll be explaining K8s concepts to people who aren't K8s experts.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience working at a trading firm — understanding the urgency and reliability requirements of systems that support P&L-impacting workloads.

- 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:

- Ownership, not tickets. This is a growing team that built and owns the entire platform. You'll have direct impact on infrastructure that trading desks depend on daily.

- Modern stack, real scale. Kubernetes at scale, a full observability platform, GitOps everywhere — all on-prem in a high-performance trading environment.

- Greenfield opportunities. Bare metal K8s, advanced observability, automated dependency mapping, AI infrastructure — there's no shortage of interesting projects.

- Small team, big impact. You won't get lost in a 50-person platform org. Every engineer on this team shapes the direction of the platform.

DV is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with DV should submit resumes in response to DV’s posted positions. All resumes submitted by search firms to DV via e-mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of DV, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by DV. DV is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About DV Trading

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: DV Trading is a North American-based proprietary trading firm that provides liquidity to global financial markets across derivatives, securities, commodities, and cryptocurrency.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, no external funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Dino Verbrugge and Jared Vegosen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Proprietary Trading
- **Target customers**: Institutional counterparties, commodity producers/users, and qualified investors (B2B). The firm trades its own capital and also offers select strategies to outside investors.
- **Mission statement**: "To adapt, innovate and evolve" in all aspects of the organization.

## Products & Services
- **DV Trading (Core)**: Proprietary trading across futures, options, equities, foreign exchange, fixed income, and cryptocurrency. The firm acts as a liquidity provider and trades on both a quantitative and discretionary basis globally.
- **DV Commodities**: A division specializing in trading commodity products, including crude oil, refined products, natural gas, power, and emissions. One of the world's largest liquidity providers in the energy space, with over 35 desks.
- **DV Securities**: An SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FICC that provides financing solutions (repo and reverse repo) for fixed income portfolios (agency MBS, US Treasuries), processing tens of billions of dollars in trades daily.
- **DV Equities**: An equities-focused proprietary trading firm registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC.
- **DV Investment Management**: Makes select scalable proprietary strategies available to qualified investors (funds of funds, PE, VC, DeFi).
- **Newton Crypto** (via affiliate DVX Capital Markets): A retail-focused crypto trading platform registered with the Ontario Securities Commission in Canada.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over 600 employees globally (as of 2025), with 500+ traders and staff across offices in Chicago, New York, London, Toronto, Dubai, Miami, Houston, and the Bahamas.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not applicable (bootstrapped). Key partnerships include relationships with prime brokers, FCMs, exchanges (FICC member), and custodial banks.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Completed acquisition and integration of Allston Trading in 2021, adding low-latency systems and trading tools.
  - Rapid headcount growth: from ~300 personnel in 2021 to 500+ in 2022 to 600+ today.
  - Global office expansion to 8 locations across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Diversified multi-asset platform**: DV trades across futures, options, equities, FX, fixed income, crypto, and commodities, allowing them to pivot capital to wherever opportunities arise.
- **Proprietary technology**: Cutting-edge low-latency trading infrastructure and proprietary software built in-house.
- **Strong risk management**: A dedicated risk team and rigorous frameworks designed to maximize risk-adjusted returns while protecting capital.
- **Regulatory infrastructure**: Multiple regulated entities (SEC, FINRA, CIRO, FICC) provide credibility and access to clearing and settlement systems.
- **20-year track record**: Survived and thrived through multiple market cycles since 2006.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Continued growth into new asset classes and geographic markets (recent addition of Dubai, Bahamas offices).
- **Technology investment**: Deepening their proprietary trading platform and low-latency systems.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring experienced traders and graduate hires across all desks, particularly in commodities and technology.
- **Diversification**: Expanding into new strategies and making select proprietary strategies available to outside capital.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include excellence, agility, ownership, curiosity, and unity. The firm emphasizes a flat, collaborative structure where individuals are empowered to take ownership and make decisions.
- **Work environment**: Fast-paced, high-stakes trading environment with a focus on continuous learning and innovation. Traders are given significant autonomy and access to world-class technology.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated, but presence in 8 global offices suggests a preference for in-office collaboration, typical of proprietary trading firms.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to trade with the firm's own capital (no personal risk), access to cutting-edge technology, and a meritocratic culture where performance is directly rewarded.
- **Engineering culture**: Developers work closely with traders and risk teams to build real-time systems. Tech stack includes C++, Python, Linux, and SQL. Roles range from back-office development to low-latency systems engineering.

## Sources
1. [dvtrading.co](https://dvtrading.co/)
2. [dvtrading.co - Who We Are](https://dvtrading.co/who-we-are/)
3. [dvtrading.co - What We Do](https://dvtrading.co/what-we-do/)
4. [Greenhouse - Back Office Developer (London) Job Posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dvtrading/jobs/4692100005)
5. [LinkedIn - DV Trading LLC](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dv-trading)

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