Lead DevOps Engineer Permanent

We are looking for a talented DevOps Architect to lead our clients team in building and maintaining an automated trading platform for cryptocurrencies. As a DevOps Architect, you will be responsible for creating and implementing a secure, scalable, and reliable DevOps process across the organization. You will also be responsible for building a DevOps team, training members, and facilitating the development process and operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent leadership and project management skills, and an interest in the trading industry.

Responsibilities:

• Building a secured staging-production delivery process using an infrastructure-as-code approach.
• Migrating the current architecture to Kubernetes.
• Improving the continuous build environments to speed up software development.
• Improving the observability and traceability of our systems.
• Improving the security of our clients systems.
• Setting up and supporting configuration/secrets management tools (e.g., Vault).
• Leading the DevOps team and mentoring its members.
• Collaborating with development, QA, and other teams to ensure a smooth software delivery process.
• Ensuring the availability, scalability, and reliability of the platform.

What they offer:

• A young and dynamic work environment with a direct and level connection to your colleagues.
• Regular company festivities and lunches.
• A competitive salary package.
• Employees have the potential to earn a bonus that amounts to 30% of their salary.
• A chance to work with cutting-edge technology and the latest tools in the industry.
• A beautiful view of Rotterdam from their office.

Requirements:

• Strong technical background in cloud infrastructure, automation, and security.
• Experience leading a DevOps team or DevOps/Infrastructure projects.
• Experience with infrastructure management and monitoring.
• Experience in microservice architecture monitoring and performance tuning.
• Experience using observability tools for log management, metrics, alerting, etc.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of AWS tooling (EC2, Auto Scaling, S3).
• Strong cybersecurity background.
• Design experience with Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Scripting Language: Bash.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Operating Systems: Linux.
• Experience with Git, Gitlab CI/CD, Grafana, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra, RabbitMQ.
• Bonus: Experience with Chaos Engineering (e.g., AWS Fault Injection Simulator).

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