Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,500+ employees and over 300,000 commercial, institutional, payments, and retail clients, we operate from more than 70 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose :

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep experience in managing streaming ecosystems (Kafka / Redpanda) in production environments. You will be responsible for designing, deploying, and operating our Redpanda-based streaming platform running on Kubernetes in Azure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance across mission-critical systems. This role requires strong expertise in cloud-native operations, observability, and infrastructure-as-code practices, as well as a passion for automation and operational excellence.

Primary duties will include :

• Own the Redpanda / Kafka ecosystem : Deploy, upgrade, and maintain clusters on Kubernetes in Azure.
• Build automation pipelines for provisioning, scaling, and monitoring streaming infrastructure.
• Optimize performance and reliability of message streaming services to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads.
• Implement observability : Configure metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for Redpanda / Kafka and related components.
• Ensure security and compliance : Apply best practices for secrets management, RBAC, encryption, and network policies in Kubernetes and Azure.
• Collaborate with developers and data teams to support streaming use cases, schema management, and integration patterns.
• Disaster recovery & resilience : Design and test failover, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Drive continuous improvement : Identify bottlenecks, propose architectural enhancements, and champion best practices.

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