Staff DevOps Engineer

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

The Quantitative Development team straddles BP's Technology and Trading divisions. We provide analytics solutions and support to traders, structurers, data scientists and quantitative analysts. This entails supporting multiple programming languages, on highly-available infrastructure, using the leading, industry-standard frameworks and resources from vendors such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, in addition to in-house products.

Key Accountabilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, spanning quants, software and platform engineers
• Work with vendors and partners to identify the optimal solutions to augment BP's trading technology platform
• Ensure operational integrity of what you build, assuring operational compliance with architectural and security standards
• Define and document standard run books and operating procedures. Create and maintain system information and architecture diagrams
• Communicate policy and implementation decisions and details to all stakeholders

As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you are part of a cross-disciplinary team, interacting with quantitative analysts and developers and BP's Enterprise Technology teams. This role will entail a high degree of autonomy to make decisions concerning which vendor products to use and how best to implement solutions in the CI/CD and cloud infrastructure spaces. Duties include:

• Designing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code deployments for internal and vendor cloud computing
• Implementation and support for high availability of critical components, including:
• Databases
• Compute environments
• Development and maintenance of CI/CD infrastructure in a multi-language environment, spanning: C+, C#, Python
• Ownership of relationships between quant and developer teams

Essential Education and Experience

• A bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a numerate subject from a major university
• 6+ years of work experience in comparable roles
• Significant expertise in Azure DevOps
• Fluency in SQL and experience with major RDBMS, such as Postgres and SQL Server
• Experience in vendor cloud solutions, principally AWS EC2, EKS and Fargate
• Expertise in CI/CD infrastructure, such as Jenkins
• Familiarity with network and security engineering, such as Virtual Private Networks
• Experience of infrastructure-as-code solutions, eg Ansible
• Scripting ability on Linux
• Strong communication ability in English

Desirable Criteria

• Ability to work independently when required, but also collaboratively with the broader team
• A sense of ownership of the solutions you create
• Strong communication, with the ability to tailor your style to all levels of seniority and varying degrees of technical background of your audience

Why join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement:

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Commercial Acumen, Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving

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