Head of DevOps
Job description
We are seeking a hands-on Head of DevOps to lead and scale our global DevOps team. In this strategic role, you will transform our very complex setup and configuration process, which is currently text-based and manual, into a semi-automated and scalable. . You will be responsible for shaping our DevOps culture, driving automation, and managing the allocation of DevOps resources..
This is a high-impact leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, operational excellence, and strong collaboration with engineering, QA, and client delivery teams.
Revolution / transformation
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of DevOps engineers.
- Oversee environment versioning, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.
- revolutionize our text-based configuration into a generator-based process, supporting a quick span to multiple servers and flexibility to development expansions.
- Drive DevOps knowledge collection and team training - the DevOps team should be the Gold standard as to how to configure and deploy any component or module.
- Manage the team - recruit, train, allocate tasks, supervise delivery. (Note that you are not expected to be the technical leader).
- Drive adoption of DevOps best practices, including monitoring, incident response, and security hardening.
- Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery.
Requirements
- 7+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial capacity
- Experience working with multiple external customers.
- Strong knowledge of version control systems: Git and SVN.
- Strong background in Linux systems administration (preferably RedHat 8).
- Experience with Database applicative versioning
- Experience with large, non-cloud-based systems
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python preferred).
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Experience managing production systems in a mission-critical environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the financial industry, especially low-latency trading systems.
- Familiarity with RPM packaging and software delivery processes.
- Hands-on experience with MariaDB/MySQL, including DBA-level management and tuning.
- Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Solace), Solarflare network cards, and BigData tooling.
- Background in optimizing C++ applications on Linux is a strong advantage.
- Knowledge of security best practices on-prem environments .
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.).
- Expertise in automation tools (Ansible preferred) and infrastructure scripting.
- Experience writing internal technical documentation and release notes.
- Deep understanding of container technologies, especially Docker.
Skills mentioned
At Fluent Trade Technologies, we are at the forefront of revolutionizing the financial trading landscape through our groundbreaking ultra-low latency technology. Our core mission is to empower faster and smarter decision-making within the high-stakes environment of financial markets by providing the world's fastest trading technology. We understand that in the digital age of trading, data is the most critical asset. Therefore, we have engineered a comprehensive, end-to-end solution that harnesses, creates, and distributes data with unparalleled speed and efficiency. Our next-generation, multi-asset trading platform is meticulously designed to serve the demanding needs of FX and futures markets, providing a significant competitive edge to our clients, which include hedge funds, global top-tier banks, and prime brokers. Innovation is the cornerstone of our strategy. Fluent's technology is a full turnkey solution, offering modular components that can be adopted individually or as a complete, fully managed SaaS package. Our offerings include a unified API to all venues, a single distribution source to multiple users, and revolutionary pre-trade risk prevention controls. We provide connectivity to over 90 data sources through a single multi-asset unified API, covering the vast majority of primary FX trading venues worldwide. The technological backbone of our platform includes C++, Java, FIX, SBE, UDP, and Multicast protocols, ensuring robust and versatile data distribution. By combining connectivity, risk management, and price distribution into a single, seamless product, we are not just a service provider but a strategic partner, helping our clients to navigate market complexities, optimize their trading strategies, and unlock new levels of performance and profitability in an ever-evolving financial ecosystem.
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