Senior DevOps Engineer
Actively Hiring
Full-time $45k - $100k Posted almost 5 years ago
Role overview
As a member of the Risk Management team you will assist in providing services supporting the management of the group's financial risk exposure.
This role will be responsible for managing and supporting the infrastructure which drives our industry-leading electronic risk management platform. The reliability and scalability of our technology is key to our success and this position will work with our core development teams to help design highly available and fault tolerant systems.
Responsibilities
- check_circle Manage and support our AWS cloud infrastructure, EC2 instances and Kubernetes clusters
- check_circle Support development teams to adopt best practices for running their applications in the cloud
- check_circle Improve platform automation, testing, monitoring, telemetry, and alerting
- check_circle Collaborate with our security team to ensure vulnerabilities are patched and audit recommendations are addressed in a timely manner
- check_circle Develop disaster recovery capabilities to ensure our business can continue to operate in the event of a technology failure
- check_circle Minimum 6 years DevOps experience supporting and managing Linux based infrastructure
- check_circle Computer science or engineering degree preferred - strong understanding of fundamental Computer Science principles is required
- check_circle Comfortable with at least one programming language such as Java or Python.
- check_circle Able to work under minimal supervision to identify problem areas requiring improvement and seeing a plan through to implementation
- check_circle Be detail-orientated with experience of end to end troubleshooting and working closely with development teams to solve problems
- check_circle Strong AWS knowledge and experience or related cloud providers
- check_circle Knowledge of Docker and multi-stage builds, registries, and best image practices
- check_circle Deep understanding of managing and supporting Kubernetes clusters. Knowledge of; microservices architectures and internal components pod liveness monitoring and metrics practices running applications in high availability mode (HA) on Kubernetes network architecture how traffic moves within pods, between clusters, load balancers, and the internet
- check_circle microservices architectures and internal components
- check_circle pod liveness monitoring and metrics practices
- check_circle running applications in high availability mode (HA) on Kubernetes
- check_circle network architecture how traffic moves within pods, between clusters, load balancers, and the internet
- check_circle Be proficient with terraform, helm chart deployments and vault
- check_circle Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitLab
- check_circle Experience supporting distributed systems communicating over a messaging bus (such as Kafka, NATS, Tibco or LBM)
- check_circle Familiar with instrumentation solutions such as Prometheus, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana and Lightstep.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working at an Investment banking or finance related field (e.g. Equities, FX, HFT, Electronic Trading)
- Experience with AWS EKS
- Experience with supporting Q/KDB+ is a big plus.
- Knowledge of continuous automation software such as Chef or Puppet
Tags & Focus Areas
Engineer Terraform Bitcoin Python Docker Kubernetes Aws
About BitMEX
BitMEX is a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform that allows users to trade futures and options on various digital assets.