Job description
About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values – Protect, Improve, Grow – underpin everything that we do at CLS and define and shape a supportive and inclusive working environment in which everyone is encouraged to be open and forward-thinking.
In this capacity, your responsibilities will include
- The management and deployment of the enterprise’s application systems for all products globally.
- Selecting and implementing suitable technologies to ensure production systems remain performant, available, scalable, secure and cost effective.
- Providing leadership for DevOps teams globally.
- Working with development and product teams to improve developer productivity and reduce time to market.
- Working with the architecture and security teams to set global best practices across all application platforms.
- Executing the global DevOps strategy.
- Ensure DevOps teams are continuing to mature and move towards global best practice.
- Manage technical application/infrastructure debt in line with our strategies.
- Developing, implementing, and reporting on critical metrics that demonstrate progress against agreed SLA’s
- Supporting the application security team in delivering and maintaining the Application Cyber Security strategies by executing security programs and ensuring governance and rigour is applied to existing security processes and practices.
- Supporting the security team in maintaining current security certifications for applications.
Who we’re looking for
Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, .
5 Years experience in a senior technical role, leading DevOps, Architecture or Development teams.
Strong technical expertise across a wide range of domains, including infrastructure, software development and related cybersecurity.
Strong technical capability and experience architecting, building, and managing AWS cloud environments.
Experience of managing costs in a cloud compute environment, whilst maintaining scalable and performant systems.
Experience of building distributed, toolchains and libraries that facilitate rapid application development and repeatable, predictable design patterns using
- Atlassian based Products like JIRA/Confluence/Bamboo
- Jenkins/Puppet/CHEF
- DAST tooling
- SAST tooling
- SCA tooling
Strategic mindset with the ability to think analytically, anticipate future trends, and develop innovative solutions.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Experience working with distributed teams with offshore resources
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Our commitment to employees:
At CLS, we celebrate diversity and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:
- Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
- 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
- Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
- Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
- Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
- Affinity Groups (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about DE&I.
- Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
- Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
- Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
- Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
- Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
- Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
- Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
- All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.
