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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Flow Traders is a market making firm headquatered in Amsterdam.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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 Senior  Site Reliability Engineer at Flow Traders, you will work on our self-service Cloud Platform, that enables our technology teams to utilize and operate their cloud resources themselves, ranging from compute instances, to Kubernetes or Kafka clusters. Of course, anything that runs in production is deployed as Infrastructure as Code.

The solutions you deliver will be scalable, and built with high availability in mind. You are continuously eliminating toil, so you can 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 cloud infrastructure in both AWS and GCP
  • Design, implement, and maintain our Kafka environments, both in the cloud and on-premises
  • Improve functionality, scalability, availability, and efficiency of the self-service Cloud Platform. This can be:
    • Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
    • Adding new services and improvements to the platform
    • Automating operational work
    • Designing policies around pillars of the platform, like security and cost control
  • Improve cloud knowledge within the company, by sharing best practices, and onboarding teams to the cloud
  • Mentoring and guide less experienced colleagues

What you need to succeed

  • BSc or MSc in Computing Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years working as a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer, or Cloud Engineer
  • Extensive experience in working with GCP or AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes
  • At least 2 years of practical experience with Terraform
  • Extensive knowledge of Linux
  • Understand and have a practical experience in designing and implementing architecture for distributed and scalable systems
  • Attracted to the dynamics of the financial markets
  • Working experience with CI/CD setups
  • Solid working knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, and multicast
  • Programming experience in Python, Bash, Ruby, or Golang

Recruitment Process 

  1. Submit your application
  2. Motivational Interview 
  3. Technical Interview 
  4. Final Cultural Fit & Technical Interview

What we offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

  • Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
  • Our own company boat
  • In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
  • In-house Bar and Lounge with an arcade, table tennis, billiards table and game consoles
  • Daily catered lunch, amazing coffee and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
  • Weekly chair massages
  • Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
  • Global rotations between our offices worldwide
  • and more!

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Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.