Job Description
DevOps Engineer (Trading)
Location: Fully Remote (within US / NYC Time Zone ±3 hours)
About the Role
- We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a discreet, high-performance crypto proprietary trading firm operating across global markets.
- You’ll play a central role in designing, building, and scaling the infrastructure that powers fully automated trading strategies across both centralised and decentralised venues.
- Working as part of a globally distributed engineering team, you’ll ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical trading systems where milliseconds matter. The role is fully remote, but requires close collaboration during US (New York) business hours ideally within ±3 hours of EST.
- This is a hands-on opportunity for an engineer who thrives in fast-moving, performance-driven environments blending deep systems expertise with a passion for automation and technical precision.
What You’ll Do
- Design, deploy, and maintain AWS-based infrastructure for real-time, low-latency systems
- Build and manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Automate configuration, deployment, and monitoring using Python and Ansible
- Enhance observability and performance through Prometheus, Grafana, and related tooling
- Troubleshoot and optimise across compute, storage, and network layers
- Support containerised workloads and participate in on-call rotation for production systems
- Partner with developers and traders to align infrastructure with system-level performance goals
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Strong Linux fundamentals (system internals, performance tuning, troubleshooting)
- Deep AWS expertise (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM)
- Excellent networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, latency optimisation)
- Proficiency with Terraform and Python for automation
- Experience with Docker and configuration management tools (Ansible preferred)
- Proven ability to maintain high-availability, mission-critical environments
Bonus Points
- Experience in trading, crypto, or other real-time, distributed systems
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and GitLab CI/CD
- Understanding of blockchain infrastructure
- Experience with performance testing and capacity planning
- Knowledge of Go or TypeScript