We believe the financial markets can and should work for everyone. Capitolis is the technology company creating safer and more vibrant financial markets by unlocking capital constraints and enabling greater access to more diversified capital and investment opportunities. Rooted in advanced technology and deep financial expertise, Capitolis powers groundbreaking financial solutions that drive growth for global and regional banks – and institutional investors alike. Capitolis is backed by world class venture capital firms, including Canapi Ventures, 9Yards Capital, SVB Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, and S Capital, as well as leading global banks such as J.P. Morgan, Citi and State Street.

Founded in 2017, our team brings decades of experience in launching successful startups, technology, and financial services. Capitolis was named to Fast Company's prestigious annual list of The World's Most Innovative Companies for 2023, CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2023 list, ranked #68 on the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list, and was named "Best FX Software Provider" in the 2023 Euromoney Foreign Exchange Awards. Most recently, American Banker recognized Capitolis among the Best Places to Work in Fintech after the company was named by Crain's New York Business as one of New York's 100 Best Places to Work in 2023 for the second consecutive year. For more information, please visit our website at www.capitolis.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Job description

Capitolis is looking for a passionate, experienced and curios DevOps Engineer with proven Production level experience to take an active part in designing, implementing and maintaining complex financial infrastructures in a high regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Enhance business continuity of a Production system in the finance sector
• Develop and deploy critical infrastructure changes to Production
• Deploy & manage advanced security solutions to protect high value trades and transactions.
• Supporting an exactly-once with zero data loss transaction processing system.
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure automation and configuration management tools
• Design and implement an orchestration solution for dozens of containerized micro-services.
• Support, improve and upgrade a continuous deployment environment.
• Maintain and improve production level observability.
• Support improve and update our DevOps Technology Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Terraform, Python, Jenkins & more
  
  

Who You Are

• At least 5 years of experience as a DevOps
• Additional industry experience as R&D/ QA /IT – a plus
• Team player – great communication skills in the team & with our stakeholders.
• Hands on experience in supporting business continuity of Critical Production Systems
• Proven experience in delivering & communicating complex solutions to DevOps stakeholders
• Corporate Information Security hands on experience
• Broad understanding of networking
• Experience with CI/CD integrations with SCM and code review tools.
• Experience with IaC of a cloud provider (preferably Terraform & AWS)
• Experience with Helm Charts
• At least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Groovy)
• Experienced with Kubernetes, Docker containers management and orchestration
• Experience with modern observability tools.
• Good interpersonal communication and written skills in English – a must
• Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Nice to have

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with Postgres on AWS RDS
• Experience with coding in Python
• Experience with ArgoCD
• Experience with Cloud Cost reduction
• Experience in Server system administration
• Proven Database Administration experience
• Master in Database Troubleshooting
• Familiar with Database Security best practices
  
  

Our Company Values

We operate with a clear set of values that guide us — our way of being, decisions, and actions. These values define who we are, and we are committed to all of them. These values are uniquely ours. If these values — all of them — speak to you, this is an amazing place, but we are not for everyone. Learn more about our Company Values here.

• We lead with purpose, while creating exceptional value
• We pursue big breakthroughs, responsibly
• We learn from the best and are unapologetically independent
• We are obsessed with the future and fanatical about executing today
• We play tough, with heart
  
  

Our People Attributes

Our People Attributes are characteristics that describe the DNA of Capitolis employees. They provide a consistent framework to hire, assess, and develop our team against. Learn more about our People Attributes on our careers page here.

• Super Smart: quality thinking and know what good looks like
• Badass: all in, get stuff done, and high standards
• Good Human: collaborative, open-minded, authentic and real, and pursue self-actualization