Head of Infrastructure

JustMarkets; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

20 paid vacation days per year

10 paid sick leave days per year

Medical insurance

Professional education budget

Language learning budget

Wellness budget (gym membership)

Public holidays as per company policy

Zusammenfassung

A leading trading platform in Germany is seeking an experienced Head of Infrastructure to lead engineering operations and maintain a high-load, globally distributed trading infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing a team, optimizing cloud costs, and guiding the architectural vision of the hybrid infrastructure. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in DevOps and a proven track record in leadership roles. Competitive benefits include medical insurance and professional education budget.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years in DevOps, System Administration, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 3+ years in a leadership role managing teams of 20+ engineers.
• Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Alibaba).
• Knowledge of IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Background in security, monitoring tools, and relational databases (MySQL).
• Excellent English communication for stakeholder management and documentation.

Aufgaben

• Manage capacity and resources for incident response.
• Take ownership of the infrastructure budget and optimize cloud costs.
• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers.
• Define hiring strategy and scale the infrastructure team.
• Ensure high availability of the global trading infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product Owners, and C-level stakeholders.
• Create documentation, disaster recovery plans, and incident playbooks.

Kenntnisse

DevOps

System Administration

Infrastructure Engineering

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Alibaba)

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Network information security

Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)

MySQL

Upper-Intermediate English

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

Windows Server

Jobbeschreibung

JustMarkets is looking for an experienced Head of Infrastructure to lead our engineering operations and maintain a highly loaded, globally distributed trading infrastructure. In this role, you will be solving complex architectural challenges within our hybrid platform, bridging our on-premise trading core (Windows, MetaTrader) with an evolving Linux and Cloud-native ecosystem. You will drive infrastructure automation, as well as lead, mentor, and scale a team of highly skilled engineers.

Responsibilities

• Manage team capacity, resource allocation, and establish effective 24/7 on-call rotation processes for incident response.
• Take ownership of the infrastructure budget (FinOps), optimizing cloud costs across AWS, Azure, and Alibaba
• Lead, mentor, and scale a team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers
• Define the hiring strategy, interview candidates, and scale the infrastructure team as the business grows.
• Set up, maintain, and ensure the high availability of the global trading infrastructure.
• Guide the architectural vision of our hybrid infrastructure, balancing established on-premise trading cores with scalable Cloud-Native environments.
• Build and maintain comprehensive platform solutions tailored for our software development teams або
• Drive the automation of infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) and build robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement and maintain enterprise-level network information security, including DDoS mitigation and infrastructure hardening.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering teams, Product Owners, and C-level stakeholders to align infrastructure roadmaps with business goals.
• Draw up documentation, disaster recovery plans, and instructions for infrastructure operations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, System Administration, or Infrastructure Engineering in high-load environments.
• 3+ years of proven experience in a leadership role (managing teams of 20+ engineers).
• Solid experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Alibaba Cloud) and understanding of global network routing.
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and a desire to drive Cloud‑Native transformation.
• Strong background in network information security and implementing monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Solid experience in administrating relational databases (MySQL).
• English level: Upper-Intermediate or higher (crucial for stakeholder management and technical documentation).

Will be a plus

• Experience in the FinTech, CFD domain, or High-Frequency Trading.
• Experience managing and scaling MetaTrader (MT4/MT5) server environments.
• Expertise in configuring and managing Windows Server environments and proficiency in PowerShell scripting.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages
• Experience with PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience working with enterprise network architectures (BGP, bare‑metal servers) and geo‑distributed latency optimization.

We offer

• 20paid vacation days per year
• 10paid sick leave days per year
• Public holidays asper the company’s approved Public holiday list
• Medical insurance
• Professional education budget
• Language learning budget
• Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear and related expenses)