Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing IT team in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Flow Traders, you will closely collaborate with our Trading and Technology teams to build the most efficient pipelines for the continuous delivery of our software and infrastructure, from idea to production. The solutions you deliver will be scalable, and built with high availability in mind. You will follow the IaC approach for buildup and maintenance of our set ups in the cloud and on premises. We are continuously automating operational work, as that enables us to spend more time on development and innovation
To succeed at Flow Traders, you have to be very self-motivated. Innovation is key to our culture, so we always encourage team members to seek out and implement improvements to our set up.
What You Will Do
- Design, implement, and maintain our Kafka environments, both in the cloud and on-premises
- Design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure in both AWS and GCP
- Improve scalability, availability, and efficiency of the cloud infrastructure
What You Need To Succeed
- BSc or MSc in Computing Science or equivalent
- 3+ years working as a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer
- Extensive experience in working with GCP or AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Hadoop
- Experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as code: e.g. Terraform
- Extensive knowledge of Linux
- Working experience with CI/CD setups
- Solid working knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, and multicast
- Scripting skills in Python, Bash, Ruby, or Perl
- Experience with the Atlassian stack: Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence is beneficial
- Attracted to the dynamics of the financial markets