Job Description:

Application DevOps Engineer - Python
London - Hybrid
Permanent - £85K - £100K + Bonus + Full Benefits

Financial Services Firm is hiring for an experienced Python Application DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team supporting critical technology platforms.

This is a hands-on role focused on Python automation, production stability, application resilience and continuous improvement within a complex, high-volume technology environment. You will work across application, infrastructure and engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability and operational performance of business-critical platforms.

Responsibilities:
* Develop Python-based automation and tooling to improve operational efficiency.
* Support and enhance critical production applications and services.
* Drive improvements across resilience, availability, performance and capacity.
* Manage deployments, releases, production readiness and failover activities.
* Implement monitoring, alerting and observability solutions.
* Troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure and batch-processing issues.
* Identify root causes and deliver sustainable technical solutions.
* Contribute to CI/CD, automation and wider DevOps and engineering best practices.

Skills and Experience:
* Strong Python development skills, particularly for automation & operational tooling.
* Experience in DevOps, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering or SRE.
* Experience supporting business-critical, high-availability applications.
* Good understanding of CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and software development
lifecycles.
* Knowledge of distributed systems, resilience, failover and capacity management.
* Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across applications and infrastructure.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Proactive approach with strong ownership and problem-solving capability.

It would be an added advantage if you had any of the following:
* Financial Services, Capital Markets or Trading Technology experience.
* Exposure to risk, trading or regulatory technology.
* Cloud, containers and modern DevOps tooling.
* Large-scale distributed or high-performance computing environments.

Please apply for immediate interview!

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