Full-Time DevOps Trading Engineer

• Manage and maintain the firm's production trading infrastructure, including automation of real-time and batch jobs
• Support the development team with ad-hoc and industry standard development and testing tools
• Drive the ongoing scaling, reliability and resiliency of our infrastructure and processes
• Ensure the security of all systems
• Troubleshoot and resolve any technical issues that arise, including server downtime, network connectivity problems, and software errors
• Monitor system performance and proactively identify and address any bottlenecks or other issues that could impact trading operations
• Work collaboratively with quantitative researchers, traders, developers, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure that the trading infrastructure meets their requirements

• 3+ years experience as an Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer or similar roles, ideally in a fast-paced environment such as electronic trading. Must know how to tune for performance and monitor for failures.
• Production experience with cloud technologies, ideally AWS. Certifications alone are not enough.
• Practical working knowledge of UDP, TCP/IP, routing protocols and VPN technologies. Ability to dive deep and understand the full network stack.
• Religious about IaC - Hands-on experience with tools such as Terraform, Ansible/Puppet is required. Must have a passion for automation.
• Hands-on experience in building CI/CD pipelines, ideally with Github
• Practical experience with container technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes and GitOps processes is required
• Experience in database administration, preferably Postgres and MySQL
• Experience with monitoring frameworks such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with time-series databases such as TimescaleDB and InfluxDB
• Exposure to streaming processing platforms such as Kafka is desirable
• Knowledge of key-value stores and in-memory databases such as Redis is a strong plus
• Proficiency in Python and Shell scripting
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Self-starter with fluent communication in written and spoken English
• Based in London, with the ability to travel periodically to our office in Zug, Switzerland

Are you keen to work in a well-resourced startup environment, where your ideas, experience, and drive to find creative solutions makes a difference? We’d like to hear from you.