DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Specialist
We're currently partnered with a crypto asset trading firm who is looking for a DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Specialist to join their growing team in London. This is an exciting opportunity to work with some of the best traders on the market, gaining a deep exposure into the crypto currency market and being an integral part of a fast-moving, high-impact environment. This is an ideal role for someone who's excited by problem solving, thrives under pressure, and enjoys collaborating with different teams across the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain continuous operation of production server applications.
- Conduct server administration tasks and resolve issues as they occur.
- Oversee and sustain logging, monitoring, and alerting systems like Splunk, Telegraph/Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.
- Manage non-production trading data, services, and servers.
- Supervise and enhance build and release cycles for trading applications.
- Optimize performance by managing the networking environment.
- Continuously enhance infrastructure reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
- Automate infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, etc.
Required Skills and Experience:
- A background in financial services is essential.
- Over 5 years of experience in infrastructure operations or similar roles.
- Strong expertise in cloud technologies, with a preference for AWS.
- Proficient in Linux systems administration.
- Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
- Familiarity with build and release processes, ideally in a trading environment.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and troubleshooting.
- Ability to script in languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.
What would make you stand out?
- Experience in high-frequency trading or the financial services industry.
- Proficiency with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience in running blockchain nodes.
- Knowledge of security best practices in infrastructure management.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems design and development.
- Solid understanding of modern software development practices, including CI/CD, service instrumentation, and multi-site software systems.
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