• Working in the Client Deployment Team, guaranteeing smooth delivery of solutions, including high-/low-level design with final technical deployment and integration of the solutions. • Planning, preparing, and setting up lab, test, and production environments for client and partnership deployments. • Installing and configuring cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes. • Automation, automation, automation – focusing on technical deployment and identifying ways to speed up these processes. • Maintaining, monitoring, administering, and updating current deployments, ensuring the stability of solutions. • Helping with incident management, providing 2nd-level support, error analysis, and classification. • Coordinating customer requests and disseminating client information. • Unlocking operational efficiency in deployment and support procedures.

• Leading and overseeing the Client Deployment Team, guaranteeing smooth delivery of solutions, including high-/low-level design with final technical deployment and integration of the solutions • Managing the planning, preparing, and setting up of lab, test, and production environments for client and partnership deployments • Supervising the installation and configuration of cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes • Driving a culture of automation, automation, automation – focusing on technical deployment and identifying ways to speed up these processes across the team • Ensuring the stability of solutions by maintaining, monitoring, administering, and updating current deployments • Coordinating customer requests and disseminating client information at a leadership level • Unlocking operational efficiency in deployment and support procedures

• You work together with backend and frontend developers and are responsible for operating the web applications. • You help automate our processes and optimize configuration management using CI/CD pipelines. • You use Kubernetes as a Service and configure deployments with Docker containers and Helm charts. • You take care of application observability and monitoring. • You help the team create a positive developer experience — during development and by using debugging tools. • You integrate new features into our backends and extend the features of existing products.

Role Description KX Systems is actively looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Strategic R&D team. The DevOps Engineer will be a leader in designing and constructing the infrastructure on which our cloud services are deployed. On a day-to-day basis, you will: - Design platform transformations and migrations towards modern cloud infrastructure. - Ensure smooth and reliable operation of our application platform, the surrounding ecosystem of microservices, and their dependencies. - Bring your creativity to improve our current infrastructure and introduce new automation where needed. - Troubleshoot, debug and follow-up on emerging issues in our application stack and its surroundings. - Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools. - Assist in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale. Qualifications - B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related technical field. - 3+ years’ experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team. - Experience in supporting complex web applications running highly available and high traffic infrastructure based on Linux. - Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, etc.), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging). - Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks. - Comfortable with shell and scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (e.g. Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.). - Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills. - Strong communication skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team. - Familiarity with modern distributed container cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, …). Company Description KX is a division of FD Technologies, a global technology provider with 20 years of experience working with some of the world’s largest finance, technology, retail, pharma, manufacturing and energy institutions. KX delivers the best possible performance and flexibility for high-volume, data-intensive analytics and applications across multiple industries. Kdb+, the core platform underpinning FD’s software division KX, is the world’s fastest time-series database, deployed in markets as diverse as financial trading, space exploration, telecommunications, and Formula one racing. Kdb+ combines streaming, in-memory and historical data in a simple and unified platform. Since the company’s inception, KX’s singular goal has been to provide its customers with the fastest, most efficient, and most flexible tools for processing real-time and historical data.