Description
Head of DevOps
About Fluent Trade Technologies
Fluent Trade Technologies is a global fintech software company providing ultra-low latency trading and market data solutions to the world’s largest banks and hedge funds. We specialize in cutting-edge technology that powers mission-critical financial systems. With a major R&D center in Jerusalem and development hubs across Europe and Asia, Fluent offers a dynamic, fast-paced, and collaborative environment driven by innovation and excellence.
Company Website: www.fluenttech.net
Position Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Head of DevOps to lead and scale our global DevOps team. In this strategic role, you will transform our very complex setup and configuration process, which is currently text-based and manual, into a semi-automated and scalable. . You will be responsible for shaping our DevOps culture, driving automation, and managing the allocation of DevOps resources..
This is a high-impact leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, operational excellence, and strong collaboration with engineering, QA, and client delivery teams.
Revolution / transformation
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of DevOps engineers.
- Oversee environment versioning, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.
- revolutionize our text-based configuration into a generator-based process, supporting a quick span to multiple servers and flexibility to development expansions.
- Drive DevOps knowledge collection and team training - the DevOps team should be the Gold standard as to how to configure and deploy any component or module.
- Manage the team - recruit, train, allocate tasks, supervise delivery. (Note that you are not expected to be the technical leader).
- Drive adoption of DevOps best practices, including monitoring, incident response, and security hardening.
- Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery.
Location:
- This is a full-time, on-site position in Jerusalem
Requirements
Requirements
- 7+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial capacity
- Experience working with multiple external customers.
- Strong knowledge of version control systems: Git and SVN.
- Strong background in Linux systems administration (preferably RedHat 8).
- Experience with Database applicative versioning
- Experience with large, non-cloud-based systems
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python preferred).
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Experience managing production systems in a mission-critical environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the financial industry, especially low-latency trading systems.
- Familiarity with RPM packaging and software delivery processes.
- Hands-on experience with MariaDB/MySQL, including DBA-level management and tuning.
- Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Solace), Solarflare network cards, and BigData tooling.
- Background in optimizing C++ applications on Linux is a strong advantage.
- Knowledge of security best practices on-prem environments .
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.).
- Expertise in automation tools (Ansible preferred) and infrastructure scripting.
- Experience writing internal technical documentation and release notes.
- Deep understanding of container technologies, especially Docker.
