DevOps Engineer

Location Hong Kong
Discipline: Financial Technology
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Lewis Piper

Contact email: lewis.piper@venturesearch.com
Job ref: 3119
Published: 15 days ago

Our Client is a proprietary systematic trading firm that provides liquidity to the global cryptocurrency markets. They run a suite of high frequency, low latency, delta neutral market making strategies on a wide variety of exchanges that reliably deliver alpha in all market conditions.

They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their rapidly growing team and help manage and grow a suite of systematic strategies that trades tens of billions of dollars a month.
 
You will play a crucial role in helping to build, monitor, debug, and maintain the infrastructure behind our clients trading strategies. As a result, you will also have a direct and measurable impact on P&L and commensurately share in the upside of the firm.

Expectations

The ideal candidate:

  • Exhibits strong logical reasoning
  • Possesses strong quantitative skills alongside attention to detail
  • Displays an entrepreneurial mindset with high energy and a can-do attitude
  • Enjoys problem solving and has no fear of learning and doing detailed work to get to desired results
  • Prefers simplicity and pragmatism, likes to take a lean and iterative approach to solving problems
  • Embraces 80/20 thinking
  • Proactively seeks out ways to automate and improve areas of the business they are assigned to
  • Uses a deeply data-backed approach to decision making and communicating ideas
  • Clearly communicates how data implies a particular conclusion; considers and explains alternative explanations for what the data shows
  • Thrives in a culture of passionate learning and teaching
  • Loves to reflect on challenges and improve process
  • Possesses humility and expresses kindness to self and others
  • Keeps on top of crypto industry news and updates
  • Must be currently located in Hong Kong
  • Collaborates effectively with trading and engineering team members to define and refine technical requirements and then execute on them
  • Cares about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes
  • Wants to be part of an organization with a transparent and agile environment where you can communicate freely and openly
Qualifications and Requirements
  • 1+ years of full time technical experience, ideally in DevOps roles
  • Experience administering Linux systems; intimate familiarity on the command line
  • Very comfortable using vi(m)
  • Python 3.9+
  • Git and GitHub
  • PostgreSQL (especially with query performance tuning)
  • Solid grasp of best practices in security principles
  • Deep understanding of AWS products (EC2, VPC, VGW, RDS)
  • Network / routing
  • Latency testing
  • Strong written and verbal English language skills
  • Love of Rust

Nice to Haves
  • Have experience in a quantitative trading firm (either tradfi or crypto native)
  • Have experience coding own trading strategies
  • Ability to use Github or other source control management to understand code diffs
  • Experience and understanding of the various major crypto exchanges