Company Description
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 looking for a Site Reliability Engineers Team Lead (SRE TL) to join the team that develops and supports a few big trading platforms.
Qualifications
We expect the Site Reliability Engineer Team Lead (SRE TL) to:
- Lead and manage a team of 2-5 Site Reliability Engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the team’s success,
- Take ownership of, standardize, and monitor our SRE capability practices, ensuring that SRE engineers effectively implement and operate these practices,
- Leverage your strong background in cloud distributed computing and reliability systems architecture to enhance the reliability and resilience of our systems,
- Work closely with developers for prototyping, and designing new features as part of the infrastructure,
- Deploy, install, configure, and maintain sophisticated Trading/Finance and related software,
- Configure bare metal & сloud instances by using Infrastructure as Code,
- Make key decisions for scalability, reliability, and accessibility,
- Install and manage in-house developed and external well-known monitoring systems,
- Design, deploy, and configure cloud-based servers and networks provision servers and storage, configure firewalls, VPN, monitoring, etc.,
- Administrate UNIX/Cloud infrastructure – installation, configuration and maintenance,
- Work with the Nexus and GIT repositories.
Must-have skills:
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and delivery squads,
- Minimum of 2 years of experience leading a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or DevOps team,
- Experience with support of JVM application (garbage collection, memory leaks),
- Strong experience with OS-level administration on Linux and/or UNIX,
- Hands-on scripting experience with Bash, Python, and/or Groovy,
- Experience with configuring TeamCity CI/CD pipelines,
- IAAS solutions using Ansible, Terraform,
- Experience with Docker containers orchestrating (K8S/OpenShift/Hashicorp),
- Know how to read and analyze errors,
- In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and ISO/OSI stack,
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Zabbix, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Grafana, Kibana, etc),
- Experience in working with Apache, Nginx, HAproxy, Envoy, etc,
- Strong ability to solve problems using code and scripting,
- English level not lower than B2.
Nice-to-have skills:
- Experience with SQL-like command language,
- Experience with Ansible (AWX),
- Knowledge of Java programming language,
- Experience with trading/exchange/risk management software usage,
- Experience with Atlassian software (JIRA, Confluence, FishEye, etc.).
Additional Information
Care for the employees is one of Devexperts' core values. For the suggested position, we offer a benefits package that will guarantee the comfort of our new teammate.
Flexibility benefits:
- Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode in Georgia,
- Flexible working hours.
Health and recreation benefits:
- 24 working days of paid vacation,
- fully paid additional wellness days (3 days per year),
- FitPass (sport and related activities) access,
- Medical insurance - VIP package.
Facility benefits:
- Modern office with new equipment,
- PlayStation and table football in the office,
- Meals in the office,
- Free drinks and snacks.
Community benefits:
- Teambuilding activities,
- Corporate parties,
- Football club,
- Billiard club,
- Speakers' club,
- Free admission to corporate external events,
- Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs,
- Personal branding development support.
Professional training benefits:
- English language courses,
- Georgian language courses for foreign employees,
- Unlimited access to self-learning platforms,
- Certification opportunities,
- Mentorship Program.
Social benefits:
- Parental bonus,
- Referral bonus,
- Blood donation paid leave,
- Gifts for employees,
- Gifts for children.
Top Skills
What We Do
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 500 engineers is recognized as one of the best in the world. Since 2002, we have received more than 25 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.
