Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

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London, Greater London, England
3-5 Years Experience
Information Technology
The Role
The Senior DevOps Engineer will automate tasks, ensure system reliability, and manage code deployments in a global DevOps team. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining network infrastructure, developing automation tools, and proposing solutions for scalability and availability.
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Company Description

Portofino Technologies is a start-up building high-frequency trading (HFT) grade technology for digital assets. 

Today, Portofino provides liquidity on the largest centralised and decentralised cryptocurrency exchanges and provides services to institutions and Web3 projects that require digital asset liquidity. 

Since our establishment in 2021, we have been building market-leading HFT technology to deploy our liquidity provisioning algorithms. Our competitive advantage is our superior proprietary technology that leverages advanced machine learning and stochastic control techniques to provide our clients and partners with the best pricing in the market. 

We are backed by some of the largest VCs in the world, Valar Ventures, Coatue, and Global Founders Capital. Our vision is to scale our technology across the full crypto infrastructure value chain.

Job Description


Summary of the role

As a DevOps engineer, you will be part of the global DevOps team where your teammates are located in different timezones. This role is crucial to the continuous improvement of people, processes and technology within Portofino. You are mainly responsible for automating complex and repetitive tasks, hence ensuring that the system functions without bottlenecks or glitches. This leads to shorter feedback loops, better collaboration and more reliable software.

You can choose to work out of any of our European locations - Zug, London or Amsterdam.

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

  • Keen interest in or prior experience working in an environment supporting high volume data flow (eg. payment gateways, trading softwares/exchanges, computer games, etc)
  • Software development experience
  • Excellent analytical skills with high attention to detail
  • Ability to work with a fully remote DevOps team based in different countries
  • Is passionate about technology, interested in both low level details of how computer hardware operates and high-level design of large systems
  • Has experience in building high throughput low latency critical server side systems
  • Has a “start up” mentality. Able to iterate quickly and write production quality code rapidly

Your responsibilities

  • You will be responsible for scoping, designing, deploying and maintaining our development and production network infrastructure and applications
  • Manage code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes; Work with CI and CD tools, and source control such as GIT
  • Develop scalable automation, orchestration and provisioning tools for our development and production environments
  • Propose creative and innovative solutions for infrastructure scalability and availability to improve user experience

Qualifications


Your profile

  • University degree or other higher education with internationally recognised certification in computer science
  • 4+ years of experience working as a DevOps engineer in an environment supporting high volume data flow- eg game development, trading, e-commerce
  • 2+ experience in software development
  • Based in Europe or willing to relocate to one of our European locations - Zug, London or Amsterdam

Technical competencies

Required technical competencies (must haves - you will be tested on this)

  • Very good knowledge of languages such as Python, Bash 
  • Hands-on DevOps experience in AWS cloud and its services like EC2, VPC, S3, SNS, Load balancers, Auto scaling, Route53, Code Pipeline, Code deploy, Cloud front, IAM role, Secrets Vault etc
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code solutions like Terraform 

Preferred technical competencies (highly desirable) 

  • Strong experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration
  • Experience in working with containers - Docker preferably and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Hashicorp Nomad etc
  • Experience with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus etc
  • Continuous Integration and continuous delivery tools, like Jenkins, Gitlab, Teamcity, for automation and configuration

Additional Information

Interested? Then apply directly or contact us at [email protected]

Disclaimer for recruitment agencies: Portofino Technologies does not accept unsolicited CVs or applications from recruiters or employment agencies in response to our career portal or our social media posts. Portofino Technologies will not agree to payment of any compensation or referral fee relating to these applications. Portofino Technologies reserves the right to hire these candidate(s) without any financial obligation towards the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted to hiring managers or any other Portofino employee, will be considered as property of Portofino Technologies.

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Portofino Technologies AG; Zug, London, Amsterdam, New York, Singapore; https://www.portofino.tech/

Top Skills

Bash
Python
The Company
Zug
26 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Portofino Technologies is building financial infrastructure technology to power digital asset adoption

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