About the role
<p data-renderer-start-pos="1" data-local-id="5d6d5c6caa36"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About Us</strong>:</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1" data-local-id="5d6d5c6caa36">Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the&nbsp;<span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">DV</span></span></span> Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="641" data-local-id="3db7b8c101de"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Overview: </strong></p> <p>We're looking for a senior level DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact team that builds and operates the infrastructure powering DV's trading systems. You'll work on Kubernetes at scale, a firm-wide observability platform, CI/CD infrastructure, and workflow orchestration.</p> <p>This team built the entire platform from scratch in 2025 and now owns it end-to-end. You'll be joining at a pivotal moment: the team is growing, the platform is scaling to meet increasing demand across the firm, and there's no shortage of hard problems to solve. You'll have real ownership from day one — not tickets in a queue.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="706" data-local-id="6d17a07f558d"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Job Responsibilities:</strong></p> <div> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="9928bc4a86e5" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1431" data-local-id="4f12b4ab4410"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Kubernetes platform operations and evolution:</strong> Cluster lifecycle management via Cluster API, fleet-wide upgrades, bare metal provisioning, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _