Software Engineer, Cloud

The Role

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team. This team is responsible for governing and managing our company's AWS footprint as well as operating critical systems such as SCM, CI/CD and other self-hosted solutions that enable our teams to be more productive. In addition, the team is the driving force behind the company’s containerization strategy which spans from OnPrem, Hybrid all the way to AWS. We operate and build the foundation that enable our teams to build critical, low-latency trading applications which move billions of dollars each day. In essence, our focus is on building a secure, reliable, and global platform which follows SRE patterns.

You should be passionate about technology, platform engineering, quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on solutions that will affect every engineer at MarketAxess by setting standards, building best practices, automation and ensuring operational excellence of existing and new systems. We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning. We openly welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions and prior ways of working. Otherwise, how do we innovate, learn, and grow as a team and individuals?   

How You’ll Help Take Us There

• Develop and scale engineering best practices across the organization through automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code 
• Deliver the tooling and capabilities needed to enable application engineers to develop software according to our cloud first strategy 
• Integrate and operate observability products that support compliance requirements and enable engineers to better understand the state of their services and apps in production 
• Provide automated & developer-friendly cloud onboarding, account vending and management 
• Ensure least privileged access to our cloud platforms to enable a zero-trust environment 
• Partner and collaborate with IT Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Application, and Data Engineering teams 
• Utilize Enterprise Architecture and Solutions Architecture patterns to develop a robust & scalable Cloud and DevOps platform which creates low friction for adoption and continuous improvement 
• Focus on improving the user experience towards or cloud team and iteratively working towards higher degrees of usability and automation 

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of software development experience, with 2 years in Cloud and/or DevOps roles 
• 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and automating infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds (AWS preferred, GCP, and Azure) using Infrastructure as Code 
• Familiarity with GitOps, Automation and DevSecOps Pipeline tools like Ansible, Maven, Gradle, Terraform, and CloudFormation 
• Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD and experience with building and deploying pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions 
• Real world experience with distributed systems, especially containers and Kubernetes; ideally experience with both cloud and/or on-premises Kubernetes deployments 
• Exposure to managing a multi-account AWS Organization and leveraging SSO, IAM, networking (VPC) and policy based RBAC 
• Strong knowledge in at least one language: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript 
• Advanced level of Linux OS understanding and scripting skills 
• Strong knowledge and experience with service-oriented architecture and event streaming (e.g., Confluent / Kafka) and caching platforms (e.g., Redis) 
• Understanding of Agile software development practices and operational excellence 
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject 
• Experience with self-hosting and/or managing systems like Bitbucket, Github, Gitlab, HashiCorp Vault, DataDog, Sonarqube 

What You Can Expect from Us 

• Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's.  
• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines 
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days
• Reward for your service: We offer a two-week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service 
• Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a “Share Incentive” plan
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences 

For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is £80,000 GBP to £110,000 GBP. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.

Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success – it's how we got to where we are and how we’ll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees in Technology work in the office 2 or more days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long-term.