Devexperts was founded in 2002 and specializes in the development of highly complex software solutions and services for the Capital Markets industry. We develop financial software solutions for retail and institutional brokerages, wealth-management firms, investment funds, exchanges, and insurance companies. Devexperts market expertise ranges from Equities to Options, to FX and Commodities in geographical locations as diverse as Chicago, New York, London, Tokyo, Istanbul, and Shanghai. The Devexperts development team of 800 engineers is recognized as one of the best in the world. Since 2002, we have received more than 30 of the global software and financial industry's most prestigious awards. In order to achieve competitive effectiveness, our project teams adhere to classic software development methodologies and employ elements of Agile software development, such as Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development. The high performance, scalability and integration capabilities of our products and services, along with 24x7x365 monitoring and support, result in some of the global financial industry’s most recognized and reliable technology applications (for leading US brokerage companies). Devexperts has 3 key business areas: • Trading platforms and brokerage automation • Complex software development projects • Market data products Devexperts also provides consulting services for financial institutions in the fields of: • Real-time transaction processing • Trading automation • Risk management • Highly complex, enterprise-wide trading platform applications.

Job description

Company Description

Devexperts Global

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and contribute to the growth of our rapidly evolving product, DXmatch Matching Engine - ultra low-latency exchange solution.

Your primary objective will be to enhance and scale the deployment, maintenance, and infrastructure:

participate in architecture design (covering High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and the rest)
optimize existing infrastructure toolings
optimize product deployment to bare metal servers and AWS
dockerize the product yet preserve it high-performance
migrate to Kubernetes
help SRE engineers to minimize product maintenance efforts

DXmatch project overview:

High Load: capable of processing up to 50 000 orders per second
distributed architecture
HA services: RAFT for stateful services, plain scaling for stateless
distributed architecture
performance-tuned networking
proven reliability: 1 year uptime on a real prod system

Project stack:

git monorepo
non-dockerized services written in Java
Oracle Linux
oVirt, Libvirt
AWS
Ansible, AWX, Terraform
Prometheus, Grafana
ELK
Bitbucket, TeamCity, Nexus
Jira, Confluence, Slack

Qualifications

What we expect from candidates:

strong self-organization skills (goal-oriented, ready to overcome status quo, autonomic)
5+ years of experience
strong team payer skills (supportive, open for communication, default to yes)
proven automation experience with Ansible and Terraform
solid Linux administration knowledge
solid network knowledge
AWS
proven experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Competent in a development language, preferably Python
languages: Intermediate+ English

Knowing these technologies will count as a plus: