Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Virtido
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**About Virtido**

Virtido is an entrepreneurial and innovative IT company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. We realize ideas and projects - from strategic concept to technical implementation closely alongside our dynamic clients with a strong focus on start-up or fast-growing companies. Since inception in 2015, we have grown rapidly to currently 100+ professionals in Switzerland and Western-Ukraine.
 

**About the client**

Our client is a Swiss FinTech startup founded in 2016. Company’s mission is to automate the entire value chain for Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs) - a family of financial products that is very similar in character to investment funds. Vestr digitizes the life-cycle management, trade execution and reporting for these products. The product’s core engine relies on an event-driven, service-oriented Node.js framework written in TypeScript.

End clients, which include one of Europe’s largest private banks, can choose between a managed service, entirely hosted in Switzerland, and an on-premises solution.

While headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, clients are accustomed to working in distributed teams. To expand the international scrum team, we are currently looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer.


**Your role**

Are you passionate about delivering building robust, scalable and real time web applications? We’re looking for an IT DevOps Engineer to:

- design and run an industry leading SaaS platform for financial products
- be hands on, to install and configure our Node.js-based infrastructure stack
- be responsible for our development environment, our cloud-based solution, and our CI/CD process
- design and implement the technical infrastructure for containerized deployments
- apply security best-practices to deliver a robust, multi-tenant platform
- be innovative, leveraging the latest technologies and your experience to offer the best application
- collaborate with the internal team and external stakeholders, including IT departments of large banks.
 

**Your team**

You’ll be part of an international team of front end, back end, and DevOps engineers, working in our offices central Zurich, Lviv or remotely. Your work will involve very close co-operation with our CTO, our internal development team, and our customers. This is an on-site role with your office location in the beautiful center of Lviv.


**Your expertise**

- 5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering/DevOps role in high available environment. Experience in financial services is a plus
- strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
- proficient with the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem, in particular with Kubernetes
- experience with designing secure and reliable containerized applications
- solid working knowledge of databases and message queues
- strong analytical & design skills and structured/systematic in your approach
- excellent communicator, able to adapt style and detail to the audience
- motivated, self-directed and driven
- fluent in English.


**What we offer**

- Medical insurance.
- Flexible working hours.
- Ability to work from home 20% of your time.
- 25 business days of fully paid annual leave, 10 business days of fully paid sick leave (annual).
- Courses of English and German.
- Comfortable and friendly environment at the office.


A Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering is a plus. Prior financial services experience is also an asset but not a requirement.

At Vestr, we offer a highly flexible working environment, interesting programming challenges, and the opportunity to work with and learn from a highly skilled scrum team.