You will be part of MDOTM’s Platform Team. As a DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in supporting, enhancing, and maintaining the foundational infrastructure and tools that empower our product teams. You'll focus on contributing to a reliable, scalable, and efficient developer platform, enabling fast and secure software delivery.
Your tasks will include
- Support & enhance CI/CD pipelines: Contribute to the design, implementation, and automation of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD) to ensure fast, safe, and repeatable releases across all environments.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementation: Assist in the adoption and management of infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, helping provision and manage on-premise and AWS resources in a controlled, auditable, and reproducible manner.
- Containerization & orchestration operation: Work with Docker and Kubernetes to package services and operate them, contributing to declarative configuration, GitOps practices, and efficient resource utilization.
- Observability & reliability monitoring: Help implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Zabbix). Participate in on-call rotations as part of a team to ensure high availability and support low Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).
- Security & compliance support: Contribute to embedding security best practices (OWASP Top 10, least privilege IAM, shift-left testing) into the SDLC and assist in automating security controls within pipelines.
- Data Infrastructure maintenance: Support the management and automation of database infrastructure (MySQL, MongoDB), including contributing to provisioning, backups, and automated schema migrations.
- Platform Service Operations: Automate and support the deployment, scaling, and operational health of core platform services (authentication, data pipelines, messaging) for internal consumers.
- Collaborative contribution: Participate in technical design discussions, learn from architectural decisions related to infrastructure and operations, and help document runbooks & standards.
- Continuous improvement: Embrace and help champion DevOps culture ("you build it, you run it") and share knowledge through demos, pair programming, and internal workshops.
Skills required
- Professional DevOps Experience: Solid professional experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with a focus on automation, infrastructure, and CI/CD.
- CI/CD Familiarity: Hands-on experience working with and contributing to CI/CD pipelines.
- Containerization & Orchestration Basics: Practical experience with Docker and exposure to Kubernetes, including writing Dockerfiles and debugging containerized applications.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Exposure: Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform or Ansible for managing infrastructure.
- Observability Basics: Experience with at least one monitoring, logging, or alerting system (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Zabbix) and a curiosity for SRE principles.
- Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash) for automating common tasks.
- Security Awareness: Basic understanding of security best practices in the SDLC.
- Problem Solving & Troubleshooting: Good analytical skills and a methodical approach to troubleshooting system and infrastructure issues.
- Soft skills: Clear English communication, collaborative spirit, and a growth mindset aligned with DevOps culture of shared ownership and rapid feedback.
- Good knowledge of English (both written and spoken).
Bonus points
- Experience with event-driven systems (e.g., ActiveMQ).
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Familiarity with backend development concepts (e.g., Java/Spring Boot) for better collaboration with development teams.
- Working knowledge of AWS fundamentals (EC2, S3, IAM).
- Financial-services or high-throughput data processing background.
Top Skills
What We Do
MDOTM Ltd. is the global provider of AI-driven investment solutions for Banks, Insurance Companies, Family Offices, Pension Funds, Wealth and Asset Managers. We believe that combining scientific reasoning with state-of-the-art AI is the key to navigate the increasing complexity of financial markets. Our proprietary AI engine exploits changes in market inertia and risk premia, using deep learning techniques to continuously analyse millions of market data points. With our AI, we construct efficient and diversified portfolios and support institutional investors in their investment decision-making. Founded in London by Tommaso Migliore and Federico Mazzorin, MDOTM Ltd. now employs over 50 people among physicists, engineers, AI and finance experts. The MDOTM LAB, our international network of universities and academic thought-leaders, collaborates with top universities and has over 60 external researchers, including professors and graduate students in economics, data science and financial engineering. MDOTM Ltd. was the only Fintech selected for the acceleration programme powered by Google for Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and it has been the first AI-Driven Advisor to sign the UN-sponsored Principles for Responsible Investment, joining the international network of institutional investors committed to including ESG criteria in their investment process. In 2022, MDOTM Ltd. was nominated as one of the world's top AI companies by Fintech Global. MDOTM Ltd. (FRN: 824056) is an appointed representative of Thornbridge Investment Management LLP (FRN: 713859), which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
