Junior DevOps Engineer
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Your team
At Swissblock, we are passionate about creating cutting-edge algorithmic trading strategies for the cryptocurrency market using in-depth market analysis. Our software engineers create and maintain the automated trading platform, which covers data ingestion, strategy generation, order execution, and portfolio management.
As a Junior DevOps Engineer in the Infrastructure, DevOps and Security team, you will improve, maintain and operate our algorithmic trading system in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), consisting of execution clusters, network architecture, identity and access management, application security, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, tracing and more.
Your role
We are looking for a highly motivated DevOps engineer interested in maintaining scalable enterprise-grade applications in a GCP / Kubernetes environment. You will work with strategic partners such as quantitative traders, developers, and data scientists. Together with your team, you will design and implement system architecture, apply DevOps best practices, perform infrastructure migration, capacity planning, resource scaling, cost optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and, most importantly, ensure continuous availability and reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform in-depth analysis of the design and implementation of our system.
- Maintain and enhance the existing infrastructure.
- Conduct reviews and support vulnerability and incident response.
- Implement and track the progress of infrastructure changes from concept to production.
- Perform workload and complexity assessments.
- Work with engineers to define and keep our concepts and DevOps best-practices.
Experience
- Working experience in containerized environment and Kubernetes.
- Unix, Linux, shell scripting and automation knowledge.
- Proficient written and verbal communication in English.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive attitude to own and solve issues.
- Sense for quality, reliability and innate curiosity to learn new things.
Preferred
- DevOps experience in cloud environment (GCP preferred) with CI/CD.
- Kubernetes administrator level knowledge, ideally with network setup, containerization, cluster setup, security and high availability configurations.
- Working experience with operating production infrastructure.
- Messaging, streaming, logging and middleware administration knowledge (Kafka, NATS, Prometheus and Grafana).
- Development know-how to support software engineers (Go, Python, REST APIs).
What we offer
- Unique opportunity to work on new, cutting-edge technology in financial trading.
- Self-funded and already profitable international company in a future-proof market.
- Great culture and team spirit with flat hierarchy and quick decision-making.
- Work-life balance with a remote-first culture (Europe or onsite in Zug, Switzerland).
- Competitive compensation scheme with an annual bonus.
- 25 days of annual leave, pension, insurance and regular company events.
Do you want to help us to bring our already profitable system to the next level and build a revolutionary trading platform? Then please apply for the position. Note that only direct applications will be accepted.
About the job
Junior DevOps Engineer
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote System Administration jobs
Your team
At Swissblock, we are passionate about creating cutting-edge algorithmic trading strategies for the cryptocurrency market using in-depth market analysis. Our software engineers create and maintain the automated trading platform, which covers data ingestion, strategy generation, order execution, and portfolio management.
As a Junior DevOps Engineer in the Infrastructure, DevOps and Security team, you will improve, maintain and operate our algorithmic trading system in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), consisting of execution clusters, network architecture, identity and access management, application security, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, tracing and more.
Your role
We are looking for a highly motivated DevOps engineer interested in maintaining scalable enterprise-grade applications in a GCP / Kubernetes environment. You will work with strategic partners such as quantitative traders, developers, and data scientists. Together with your team, you will design and implement system architecture, apply DevOps best practices, perform infrastructure migration, capacity planning, resource scaling, cost optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and, most importantly, ensure continuous availability and reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform in-depth analysis of the design and implementation of our system.
- Maintain and enhance the existing infrastructure.
- Conduct reviews and support vulnerability and incident response.
- Implement and track the progress of infrastructure changes from concept to production.
- Perform workload and complexity assessments.
- Work with engineers to define and keep our concepts and DevOps best-practices.
Experience
- Working experience in containerized environment and Kubernetes.
- Unix, Linux, shell scripting and automation knowledge.
- Proficient written and verbal communication in English.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive attitude to own and solve issues.
- Sense for quality, reliability and innate curiosity to learn new things.
Preferred
- DevOps experience in cloud environment (GCP preferred) with CI/CD.
- Kubernetes administrator level knowledge, ideally with network setup, containerization, cluster setup, security and high availability configurations.
- Working experience with operating production infrastructure.
- Messaging, streaming, logging and middleware administration knowledge (Kafka, NATS, Prometheus and Grafana).
- Development know-how to support software engineers (Go, Python, REST APIs).
What we offer
- Unique opportunity to work on new, cutting-edge technology in financial trading.
- Self-funded and already profitable international company in a future-proof market.
- Great culture and team spirit with flat hierarchy and quick decision-making.
- Work-life balance with a remote-first culture (Europe or onsite in Zug, Switzerland).
- Competitive compensation scheme with an annual bonus.
- 25 days of annual leave, pension, insurance and regular company events.
Do you want to help us to bring our already profitable system to the next level and build a revolutionary trading platform? Then please apply for the position. Note that only direct applications will be accepted.