Explore exciting DevOps Engineer opportunities. These roles focus on automating and streamlining software development processes, ensuring efficient deployment and operation of applications. DevOps Engineers work with development and operations teams to implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and monitor system performance. Key skills include proficiency in scripting languages, experience with configuration management tools, and a strong understanding of cloud platforms.525 Devops Engineer jobs in Singapore
DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
SYNECHRON TECHNOLOGIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
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Job Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining the entire DevOps pipelines.
- Coordinate with the stakeholders from requirements gathering until successful implementation DevOps pipeline on boarding.
- Support developers in preparation of JIRA deployment tickets as part of change management.
- Work with the vendors and for internal platforms to setup centralized DevOps solutions considering market best practice, Industry standard and ease of support.
- Work with the vendors and for internal platforms to upgrade the DevOps tools farm and integrating with tools.
- Lead analysis and resolution of root cause for Test Orchestration / Environment related issues.
- Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; writing, publishing and conference-level presentation skills.
- Stays current with industry trends and leads development of key DevOps, Runtime, and Operational innovation platforms.
- Deep technical background, with hands-on experience in supporting CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonar, Veracode for SAST, JIRA and Confluence).
- Hands on experience building CI/CD pipelines orchestration by Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or similar tools is a must-have.
- Must have experience in containerizing applications and have hands-on with building pods / containers in Kubernetes.
- Good Experience on OpenShift or AWS.
- Prior technical background on different build and branching strategies.
- Deep technical background on Kubernetes deployment process.
- Good knowledge on maintaining/deploying secrets in Kubernetes.
- Prior working experience in setting up Jira workflow.
- Strong hands-on experience on Shell or Groovy scripting.
- Prior experience is customizing JIRA and Setting up confluence spaces.
- Prior hand-on experience in setting up CI/CD pipeline as a centralized solution.
- Hand on experience in setting up DevOps governance, Security standards and audit requirements.
- Prior experience in setting up DevOps pipeline in internal and external cloud offerings.
- Experience with continuous testing, techniques and tools (Junit, Sonar Cube, Veracode etc.)
- Technical exposure of automation accomplished with advanced Python, Chef, Ruby and PowerShell.
- Experience in managing hybrid cloud/on-prem environments.
- Familiarity with observability platforms and incident response workflows.
- Working knowledge of AI / Machine Learning applications will be an advantage.
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DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
WPH DIGITAL PTE. LTD.
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Under administrative supervision of the Technology, this position is responsible for the deployment and maintenance of a cloud-based applications infrastructure.
Responsible for deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting and improving the systems that keep the backend infrastructure running smoothly. The role requires you to have hands-on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation / management and continuous improvement.
Job Duties:
Responsible for deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting and improving the systems that keep the backend infrastructure running smoothly. The role requires you to have hands-on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation / management and continuous improvement.
Job Duties:
- Deploying, automating, maintaining, and managing AWS cloud-based production system, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.
- Build, release, and configuration management of production systems.
- Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services.
- System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.
- Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.
- Ensuring critical system security using best in class cloud security solutions.
- Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or other equivalent technical discipline.
- 3+ years' experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security
- Experience in EKS, CICD platform Gitlab, Github, Azure DevOps.
- AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associate) is preferred.
- Conversant with infrastructure definition tools such as Cloud Formation and Terraform
- Experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
- Scripting Skills: Strong scripting and automation skills.
- Operating Systems: Windows and Linux system administration.
- Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools.
- Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
- Experience with other Clouds such as Azure or GCP can be considered.
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DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
ACTIVATE INTERACTIVE PTE LTD
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Activate Interactive Pte Ltd ("Activate") is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.
We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realise their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.
We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.
If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people's lives, then we would love to hear from you
We are seeking a highly motivated individuals skilled in DevOps to join us for some exciting projects.
You'll work with a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers and business experts to create solutions that exist in both digital and physical realms.
As we launch new products, your role will be to ensure that the future of public service is not just functional, but delightful to use.
Rather than work on commercial ventures commonly found in the startup scene, we're here to improve how we live as a society through what we can offer as a government.
What will you do?
Activate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Protecting your privacy and the security of your data are longstanding top priorities for Activate Interactive Pte Ltd.
Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Activate Interactive Pte Ltd's recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes.
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We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realise their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.
We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.
If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people's lives, then we would love to hear from you
We are seeking a highly motivated individuals skilled in DevOps to join us for some exciting projects.
You'll work with a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers and business experts to create solutions that exist in both digital and physical realms.
As we launch new products, your role will be to ensure that the future of public service is not just functional, but delightful to use.
Rather than work on commercial ventures commonly found in the startup scene, we're here to improve how we live as a society through what we can offer as a government.
What will you do?
- Manage the development of the internal engineering productivity tools and environments.
- Providing DevOps architecture implementation and operational support
- Architecture and planning for cloud deployments (Private and Public cloud);
- Be an innovative and hands-on DevOps engineer capable of looking at both the technology and strategy around the platform.
- Future-proofing the technical environments and ensuring extremely high levels of automation, availability, scalability and resilience.
- Manage the development of the internal engineering productivity tools and environments.
- Manage processes, automation, best practices, documentation.
- Development and operation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
- Monitoring automation to effectively detect/predict/prevent issues in the environment and code base.
- Ability to conduct research into software issues and products as required
- Working with the latest tools and techniques
- Hands-on coding and mentoring, usually in a pair programming environment
- Working in highly collaborative teams and building quality environments.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure, fast paced, global environment
- Knowledge in lots of different open source technologies and configurations.
- Degree or Diploma in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Technology, Communications or other related disciplines.
- Strong knowledge and experience in Devops automation, containerisation and orchestration using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and Docker
- Strong scripting skills e.g. Python, Bash, JavaScript
- Familiar with Java is a plus
- Cloud computing deployment and management experience: AWS
- Understand/practice Agile projects
- Strong understanding of networking
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Experience with highly scalable distributed systems
- Breadth of knowledge - OS, networking, distributed computing, cloud computing
- Fun working environment
- Employee Wellness Program
Activate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Protecting your privacy and the security of your data are longstanding top priorities for Activate Interactive Pte Ltd.
Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Activate Interactive Pte Ltd's recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes.
Please consult our Privacy Notice () to know more about how we collect, use, and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Here you can find how you can request for access, correction and/or withdrawal of your Personal Data
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DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
SHELL INFOTECH PTE. LTD.
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- 5 years of strong software engineering experience with proficiency in at least one of these languages: JavaScript, Java, Python, or .NET.
- At least 3 years of experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm. Relevant certifications are advantageous.
- At least 3 years of AWS experience with solid understanding of Cloud services and infrastructure management. AWS certifications are advantageous.
- Proven experience in infrastructure as code tools, such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Experience in log aggregation and observability tools, such as CloudWatch, Splunk and Datadog.
- Proficiency in CI/CD workflows and GitHub Action.
- Strong knowledge of artifact repository management systems, such as JFrog.
- Strong Linux administration skills and Shell scripting expertise.
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DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
PERSOLKELLY SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
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- Participate in the architecture design and core component development of AI training clusters to build a high-performance and highly available computing platform.
- Responsible for building observability systems for training tasks and resources, enhancing the cluster's capabilities in monitoring, alerting, and log analysis.
- Optimize key components such as compute scheduling, RDMA networking, and container runtime to ensure efficient and stable operation of training and inference tasks.
- Support automated deployment, operations, and troubleshooting of large-scale clusters, improving system maintainability and availability.
- Continuously explore cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, containerization, service mesh) to optimize AI training infrastructure.
- Bachelor's degree or above from a 211 or higher-tier university, majoring in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Information, or related fields.
- Solid foundations in operating systems; familiar with Linux kernel, networking, storage, and performance tuning.
- Proficient in Golang with strong coding skills; Kubernetes development experience is a plus.
- Familiar with cloud-native tech stacks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Knowledge of high-performance networking and communication technologies such as RDMA, InfiniBand, NCCL is preferred.
- Experience in operations or development of large-scale distributed systems, with the ability to quickly troubleshoot and resolve complex issues.
- Strong team collaboration skills and a keen interest in AI infrastructure technologies, with a willingness to dive deep into optimization directions.
- Familiarity with AI training frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) or scheduling systems (e.g., Slurm, KubeFlow).
- Experience in GPU/NPU cluster optimization or High-Performance Computing (HPC).
- Familiar with cloud-native networking and observability technologies like eBPF, Cilium, Istio.
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Devops Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
MICHAEL PAGE (PERSONNEL) PTE. LTD.
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- A global leader in cloud computing, serving millions of users and enterprises.
- Engineering-driven culture with strong focus on scalability, reliability
Our client is a top-tier cloud service provider operating at global scale, known for its cutting-edge technology and innovation-driven culture. The company offers a high-growth environment where engineers can work on mission-critical platforms with real-world impact, collaborate with top talent, and grow their technical expertise in a world-class infrastructure environment.
Job Description
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable CI/CD platforms to support internal engineering teams.
- Implement and integrate modern DevOps toolchains to enhance software delivery speed and reliability.
- Manage version control workflows, enforce codebase quality standards, and ensure repository security.
- Promote CI/CD adoption by aligning stakeholders, conducting training, and driving cross-team collaboration.
- Continuously optimize automation pipelines and improve developer experience across R&D functions.
- Contribute to internal best practices and support future-looking infrastructure initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with at least 5 years of experience in CI/CD system design or development.
- Strong hands-on experience with tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI.
- Solid programming skills in Java, Python, or Go, with strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms).
- In-depth knowledge of Git and distributed version control practices.
- Skilled in Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and container orchestration environments.
- Excellent communication skills, fast learner, and passionate about DevOps and developer productivity.
- Opportunity to work on high-scale, business-critical platforms at a global cloud technology firm.
- Competitive compensation and benefits, with long-term growth and career development.
- Collaborate with highly talented engineering teams and gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies.
- Work in a fast-paced environment that values innovation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- Be part of strategic digital transformation and DevOps adoption efforts.
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DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
TRINITY CONSULTING SERVICES PTE. LTD.
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• Must have minimum 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Good knowledge in UNIX platform and database management systems such as SQL, Oracle, Sybase.
• Development in C# .net a must have
• Good to have automation frameworks and libraries knowledge.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Shell script and PowerShell.
• Good exposure to DevOps tools & technologies like Gitlab, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, and MQ Series and test automation tools like Selenium (and other test automation frameworks), cucumber etc.
• Experience with Docker/Kurbernetes
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services
• .net and Azure devops
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DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
KEY CONNECT RECRUITMENT PTE. LTD.
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- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in Software Development.
- Hands-on experience working on AWS
- Hands-on experience with containerization using Docker, and Kubernetes
- Good understanding of virtualization and networking concepts
- Hands-on experience with configuration management systems such as Terraform, Packer and Ansible
- Hands-on experience with production deployments such as Kubernetes and automating provisioning with IaC best practices.
- Hands-on experience in linux server administration, and shell scripting with Bash, and good to have other scripting languages.
- Knowledge in System architecture is a plus
- Has knowledge with tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, ELK, docker, eks, kubernetes, ansible, terraform, packer, helm, networking, linux, elk, gitlab, aws
- programming knowledge in python, bash
- Experience with highly scalable distributed systems
- Breadth of knowledge - OS, networking, distributed computing, cloud computing
- Manage the operations of cloud infrastructure and application services
- Strong technical aptitude including excellent troubleshooting and communications skills
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DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
QUANTEAM (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
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We are seeking a talented DevOps Platform Engineer for one of our prestigious Client to join their dynamic Capital Markets IT Department
As a DevOps Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our infrastructure and automation tools. You will work closely with development teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of our applications. You will be a key contributor to our continuous improvement efforts, ensuring our environments are always reliable, secure, and efficient.
As a Developer, you will be responsible for design, develop and test based on requirements and design documentation. Develop automated systems to ensure reusability and efficiency and promote usage of testing methodologies aiming to identify and address defects early in the development lifecycle.
Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API's, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.
They are starting the decommissioning of their trading platform for their Treasury business to transfer this activity to their main front office target platform (Orchestrade or OT). Orchestrade is already implemented for other asset classes.
This project (decommissioning + migrate into Orchestrade) will migrate their worldwide cross asset treasury platform (all products) booked in several instances. They are creating a team in Singapore to take in charge some part of the project (e.g. Inbound and outbound flows of the platform for various systems or modules, OT API and format such as Json, Protobuf, CIBML.). Performance and latency of those interfaces will be key for the success of the project.
With strong interactions with their Paris Head office team, the developer would put in place the first foundations of a development team based in Asia in Singapore. The developer joins a future team of Front Office developers that will grow and will be key in the future for our technology hub in Singapore. The team will be fully allocated to this project and will be part of a multi sites project team.
Qualifications and Profile
Candidates should have minimum 5 years' experience in relevant activities.
Technical
As a DevOps Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our infrastructure and automation tools. You will work closely with development teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of our applications. You will be a key contributor to our continuous improvement efforts, ensuring our environments are always reliable, secure, and efficient.
As a Developer, you will be responsible for design, develop and test based on requirements and design documentation. Develop automated systems to ensure reusability and efficiency and promote usage of testing methodologies aiming to identify and address defects early in the development lifecycle.
Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API's, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.
They are starting the decommissioning of their trading platform for their Treasury business to transfer this activity to their main front office target platform (Orchestrade or OT). Orchestrade is already implemented for other asset classes.
This project (decommissioning + migrate into Orchestrade) will migrate their worldwide cross asset treasury platform (all products) booked in several instances. They are creating a team in Singapore to take in charge some part of the project (e.g. Inbound and outbound flows of the platform for various systems or modules, OT API and format such as Json, Protobuf, CIBML.). Performance and latency of those interfaces will be key for the success of the project.
With strong interactions with their Paris Head office team, the developer would put in place the first foundations of a development team based in Asia in Singapore. The developer joins a future team of Front Office developers that will grow and will be key in the future for our technology hub in Singapore. The team will be fully allocated to this project and will be part of a multi sites project team.
Qualifications and Profile
Candidates should have minimum 5 years' experience in relevant activities.
Technical
- Good knowledge in UNIX platform and database management systems such as SQL, Oracle, Sybase.
- Strong Development background in C# .net a must have
- Strong exposure to Data Structures, Algorithms, collections, multi-threading and OO design patterns (Must Have).
- Good knowledge on web APIs, HTTP/HTTPS, REST, SOAP etc.
- Good to have automation frameworks and libraries knowledge.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Shell script and PowerShell.
- Good exposure to DevOps tools & technologies like Gitlab, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, and MQ Series and test automation tools like Selenium (and other test automation frameworks), cucumber etc.
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
- Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services
- .net and Azure devops
- Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Treasury and Fixed Income Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)
- Experience in supporting banking applications and trading systems
- Domain-Driven design and Microservices: Springboot
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
- Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
- Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management
- Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members' skills.
- Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player
- Ability and flexibility to work with cross-geographical teams operating in different time zones.
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DevOps Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
SYNECHRON TECHNOLOGIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
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Job Responsibilities:
- Research, design, and develop computer software or specialised utility programs.
- Develop and maintain automation tools for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment and quality assurance.
- Collaborate with development teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment as well as test processes.
- Work on the industrialization of test management.
- Work on the management of OT DeKOT environments.
- Work on the preparation/industrialization of the transition to run mode of Orchestrade for Treasury.
- Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues.
- Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of our DevOps culture and processes.
- Implement automated testing systems to ensure reusability and efficiency.
- Promote and implement testing methodologies, aiming to identify and address defects early in the development lifecycle.
- Provide technical support to other teams, assisting with problems encountered internally, such as system malfunctions. Propose solutions, suggest improvements, and contribute to data analysis.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest DevOps technologies and trends.
- This position will be an important pillar of Support Orchestrade for Treasury. Gradually, this position will perform application support for users level 3(Front to BO).
- Candidates should have minimum 5 years experience in relevant activities.
- Good knowledge in UNIX platform and database management systems such as SQL, Oracle, Sybase.
- Development in C# .net a must have.
- Good to have automation frameworks and libraries knowledge.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Shell script and PowerShell.
- Good exposure to DevOps tools & technologies like Gitlab, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, and MQ Series and test automation tools like Selenium (and other test automation frameworks), cucumber etc.
- Experience with Docker/Kurbernetes.
- Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services.
- .net and Azure devops.
- Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Treasury and Fixed Income Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)
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