Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS) in London

If you're passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team. Join us as a Lead DevOps Engineer supporting low-latency trading infrastructure and business-critical financial systems across cloud and on-prem environments. This hands-on technical lead role focuses on designing, automating, and supporting highly available platforms in partnership with engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams. It is an opportunity to improve reliability, scalability, security, and delivery while advancing DevOps, platform engineering, observability, and AI-enabled infrastructure tooling.

Provide technical direction, mentorship, and guidance to engineers while remaining an active hands-on contributor across DevOps, automation, infrastructure, and platform engineering initiatives.

• Build and improve automated CI/CD pipelines for Java and Python applications across multiple environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration, database schema creation, and operational workflows across cloud and on-prem platforms.
• Support production systems with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, incident response, vulnerability management, patching, and change management.
• Containerize applications and support deployments using container orchestration platforms.
• Partner with development teams to understand application codebases and architecture, improving deployment, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Use infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Chef, or Ansible to drive consistency and repeatability.
• Troubleshoot complex deployment, performance, networking, and infrastructure issues, with an emphasis on preventing recurring manual fixes through automation.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational workflows.
• Identify, design, and help implement AI-enabled operational capabilities for infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, and platform engineering.
• Contribute to the strategy for safe, practical, and secure adoption of AI across infrastructure and DevOps practices.
• Lead and participate in Agile delivery practices, using Jira to manage priorities, plan work, track delivery, communicate dependencies, and provide clear status across infrastructure and application initiatives.

Requirements

• Leadership & Delivery: Hands-on technical lead experience. Agile delivery experience, including planning, prioritization, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, dependency management, and delivery tracking across distributed teams.
• Systems & Automation: Linux/Unix administration, operational support, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Scripting/programming in Python, Bash, or similar. Infrastructure as code and configuration management with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar.
• Infrastructure & Operations: Strong understanding of networking, routing, and traffic flow across distributed systems. Monitoring, logging, and observability experience, including tools such as Splunk or similar. Cross-functional collaboration with application, network, infrastructure, security, and operations teams. AWS EKS is a plus. Hands-on AWS and hybrid cloud experience, including EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, and EFS. Experience with cloud or hybrid hosting environments.
• Domain Experience: Experience supporting financial systems, trading platforms, market data platforms, feeds, or similar low-latency infrastructure. Knowledge of unicast and multicast networking in low-latency or market data environments.
• Modern Tooling: Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar. Experience contributing to AI-enabled automation, operational workflows, or infrastructure strategy.
• Additional: Proven success working in a global, matrixed organization. Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate, RHCE, PSM, CSM, or ITIL are a plus.

Technology Environment

• Cloud and Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, EKS, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, EFS, hybrid hosting
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Bash, Python
• Containers and Orchestration: Jenkins, GitLab, Git
• Monitoring and Operations: Splunk or equivalent observability tools
• AI-Enabled Engineering: AI-assisted development tools, AI-enabled operational workflows, and AI infrastructure strategy
• Operating Systems: Linux/Unix

Hybrid Flexible at Broadridge

We are made up of high-performing teams that meet in person to learn and collaborate as needed. This role is considered hybrid.

We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone's unique perspective.

Use of AI in Hiring: As part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications.

Summary

Location: London - 12 Arthur Street
Type: Full time