Skills

Python Bash Splunk DevOps Docker Kubernetes Monitoring Ansible Prioritization Networking Architecture Linux Organization AWS Terraform Prometheus Grafana

Job Specifications

Target profile

You will love this job if:

You are pioneering and innovative and want to be part of the cutting-edge and disruptive crypto currency world
You are eager to learn new knowledge in both financial and technical fields
You thrive in a non-hierarchical organization with a casual working environment
You are flexible and dedicated

Team / Role

As a Platform Engineer, you will:

Act as infrastructure SME for a 24x7x365 globally distributed ethical web scraping function, supporting a multi region high frequency operation
Be able to proactively analyze, drive, and own, performance and process improvements along all parts of the chain
Collaborate closely with development team in terms of architecture/prioritization
Liaise closely and collaboratively with central infrastructure team, in terms of common infrastructure/improving standards across the estate
Work effectively in a global multi-cloud set up, in terms of initiating/managing relationships, evaluation/onboarding of new providers, and improving internal processes in line with best-of-breed industry practices
Be a Linux/network stack expert and utilise that knowledge in the context of tuning/optimization and production support
Support the platform during business hours, and out-of-hours as part of a rota, and proactively chase ways to reduce/design out manual support overhead

Required skill set

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other technical discipline (or equivalent experience)
2-4 years of solid working experience in an infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform engineer role
Production experience in a global cloud environment. Demonstrable AWS and strong networking experience in a multi-region and/or multi-cloud set up is essential.
Strong scripting skills (Python / Bash)
Strong Linux / network stack knowledge, as well as optimization/tuning

Exposure and experience in the following areas would be a distinct advantage:

Forward proxy tooling (e.g. Squid)
CDN (Content Delivery Network) experience on production API/website
Demonstrable experience of external vendor relationship management

Nice to haves

Containerization (Docker / Kubernetes) in a production environment
Monitoring tools in a production environment (Prometheus / Grafana / ELK stack / Splunk)
IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible etc)

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About the Company

Pulsar is a proprietary algorithmic trading firm, specialized in high frequency trading and market making in the crypto market. The firm was founded in 2014 with a vision to be a top tier trading team and increase global market efficiency. In terms of business footprint, Pulsar is trading on 80+ trading venues globally across centralized and decentralized exchanges, providing liquidity to 650+ coins, with a daily trading volume of USD1B+. To be part of the crypto evolution, Pulsar is also active in investing into early-stage... Know more