What are the responsibilities and job description for the Murex DevOps position at Luxoft?
Project description
DXC Luxoft has one of the world's leading Murex practices. We are a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered over 200 successful Murex projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.
This is a contractor position.
Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry would be of high interest to us.
Responsibilities
Role Summary:As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and operating automated platforms that enable reliable, secure, and scalable delivery of the MX platform across SaaS, cloud, and on-premise environments.You will play a key role in CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, environment management, and production reliability, working closely with development, QA, and client-facing teams.Key Responsibilities:
CI/CD & Release Engineering
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple environments
Ensure pipeline stability, performance, and reliability, minimizing build failures and delays
Implement automated build, packaging, and deployment processes
Enforce version control best practices (branching strategies, tagging, artifact management)
Support release cycles, including validation, smoke testing, and rollback strategies
Automation
Plan & Code Templates stored in Git repositories alongside application code, allowing template updates to be version-controlled, code-reviewed, and tracked
Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and upgrades
Build reusable automation components to improve scalability and consistency
Reduce manual operations through process automation and scripting
Environment & Platform Management
Deploy and manage MX environments across development, testing, and production stages
Handle environment lifecycle:
Provisioning
Configuration
Upgrades & patching
Decommissioning
Ensure environments are standardized, reproducible, and compliant
Support multi-client and multi-environment setups in SaaS or hybrid models
Monitoring, Observability & Reliability (SRE mindset)
Implement and maintain:
Monitoring
Logging
Alerting
Ensure end-to-end observability of platforms and pipelines
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on incidents
Contribute to improving system reliability, SLAs, and operational KPIs
Data & Environment Operations
Manage environment data lifecycle:
Data provisioning
Data masking for non-prod environments
Data sampling and reduction
Support database operations:
Migration
Sanitization
Reconciliation
Ensure compliance with security and data governance requirements
Incident & Support Management
Act as a technical escalation point for environment and platform incidents
Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and environments
Coordinate with support and product teams for resolution
Ensure proper documentation and knowledge sharing
Collaboration & Delivery Enablement
Collaborate with:
Development teams (integration into CI/CD pipelines)
QA teams (test automation and environment consistency)
Product teams (release readiness and constraints)
Client teams (technical coordination and delivery)
Contribute to smooth delivery across project lifecycle10. Continuous Improvement & Best Practices
Promote DevOps principles:
Automation-first
Continuous integration & delivery
Shift-left testing
Identify inefficiencies and propose improvements
Contribute to:o Internal toolingo Documentationo Standardization efforts
Share knowledge and support onboarding of new team membersRequired Skills & Experience :Technical Skills
CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
Version control systems: Git (advanced usage)
Proficiency in template engines, specifically FreeMarker (FTL)
Scripting: Shell, Python, Groovy
Operating systems: Linux/Unix
Cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), Azure/Google Cloud Platform is a plus
Databases: RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, or similar)DevOps & Platform Expertise
Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in complex environments
Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools
Exposure to SaaS / distributed architecturesSoft Skills
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Ability to work under pressure in production environments
Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Team-oriented with strong collaboration mindset
Proactive and continuous improvement mindsetExperience
Skills
Must have
1-2 years of experience in DevOps, CI/CD
Hands-on experience in production or client-facing environments preferred
Nice to have
Murex MLC
Credit Risk Collateral.
Other
Languages
English: C2 Proficient
Seniority
Regular
DXC Luxoft has one of the world's leading Murex practices. We are a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered over 200 successful Murex projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.
This is a contractor position.
Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry would be of high interest to us.
Responsibilities
Role Summary:As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and operating automated platforms that enable reliable, secure, and scalable delivery of the MX platform across SaaS, cloud, and on-premise environments.You will play a key role in CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, environment management, and production reliability, working closely with development, QA, and client-facing teams.Key Responsibilities:
CI/CD & Release Engineering
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple environments
Ensure pipeline stability, performance, and reliability, minimizing build failures and delays
Implement automated build, packaging, and deployment processes
Enforce version control best practices (branching strategies, tagging, artifact management)
Support release cycles, including validation, smoke testing, and rollback strategies
Automation
Plan & Code Templates stored in Git repositories alongside application code, allowing template updates to be version-controlled, code-reviewed, and tracked
Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and upgrades
Build reusable automation components to improve scalability and consistency
Reduce manual operations through process automation and scripting
Environment & Platform Management
Deploy and manage MX environments across development, testing, and production stages
Handle environment lifecycle:
Provisioning
Configuration
Upgrades & patching
Decommissioning
Ensure environments are standardized, reproducible, and compliant
Support multi-client and multi-environment setups in SaaS or hybrid models
Monitoring, Observability & Reliability (SRE mindset)
Implement and maintain:
Monitoring
Logging
Alerting
Ensure end-to-end observability of platforms and pipelines
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on incidents
Contribute to improving system reliability, SLAs, and operational KPIs
Data & Environment Operations
Manage environment data lifecycle:
Data provisioning
Data masking for non-prod environments
Data sampling and reduction
Support database operations:
Migration
Sanitization
Reconciliation
Ensure compliance with security and data governance requirements
Incident & Support Management
Act as a technical escalation point for environment and platform incidents
Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and environments
Coordinate with support and product teams for resolution
Ensure proper documentation and knowledge sharing
Collaboration & Delivery Enablement
Collaborate with:
Development teams (integration into CI/CD pipelines)
QA teams (test automation and environment consistency)
Product teams (release readiness and constraints)
Client teams (technical coordination and delivery)
Contribute to smooth delivery across project lifecycle10. Continuous Improvement & Best Practices
Promote DevOps principles:
Automation-first
Continuous integration & delivery
Shift-left testing
Identify inefficiencies and propose improvements
Contribute to:o Internal toolingo Documentationo Standardization efforts
Share knowledge and support onboarding of new team membersRequired Skills & Experience :Technical Skills
CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
Version control systems: Git (advanced usage)
Proficiency in template engines, specifically FreeMarker (FTL)
Scripting: Shell, Python, Groovy
Operating systems: Linux/Unix
Cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), Azure/Google Cloud Platform is a plus
Databases: RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, or similar)DevOps & Platform Expertise
Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in complex environments
Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools
Exposure to SaaS / distributed architecturesSoft Skills
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Ability to work under pressure in production environments
Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Team-oriented with strong collaboration mindset
Proactive and continuous improvement mindsetExperience
Skills
Must have
1-2 years of experience in DevOps, CI/CD
Hands-on experience in production or client-facing environments preferred
Nice to have
Murex MLC
Credit Risk Collateral.
Other
Languages
English: C2 Proficient
Seniority
Regular