Head of DevOps

Fluent Trade Technologies Limited; Ohio; On-site; USD 137,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluent Trade Technologies Limited is seeking a Head of DevOps to lead and scale a global DevOps organization from an on-site Jerusalem location. The role focuses on transforming a text-based, manual setup into a generator-based, automated process and driving rapid, reliable deployments.

You will guide a distributed team, implement industry best practices, and collaborate with engineering, QA, and client delivery teams to improve performance and scalability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE with 5+ years in leadership or management.
• Experience working with multiple external customers.
• Strong knowledge of version control systems: Git and SVN.
• Extensive Linux systems administration experience (RedHat 8 preferred).
• Experience with Database applicative versioning and large, non-cloud-based systems.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python preferred).
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Experience managing production systems in a mission‑critical environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of DevOps engineers.
• Oversee environment versioning, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.
• Revolutionize text-based configuration into a generator-based process for multi-server scalability.
• Drive DevOps knowledge collection and team training to set a gold standard for deployment.
• Manage the team - recruit, train, allocate tasks, supervise delivery.
• Drive adoption of DevOps best practices, including monitoring, incident response, and security hardening.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery.

Skills

DevOps leadership

SRE experience

Python scripting

English communication

Tools

Git

SVN

Linux RedHat 8

MariaDB/MySQL

CI/CD

Job description

Position Overview

We are seeking a hands‑on Head of DevOps to lead and scale our global DevOps team. In this strategic role, you will transform our very complex setup and configuration process, which is currently text-based and manual, into a semi‑automated and scalable. You will be responsible for shaping our DevOps culture, driving automation, and managing the allocation of DevOps resources. This is a high‑impact leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, operational excellence, and strong collaboration with engineering, QA, and client delivery teams.

Revolution / transformation

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of DevOps engineers.
• Oversee environment versioning, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.
• revolutionize our text-based configuration into a generator-based process, supporting a quick span to multiple servers and flexibility to development expansions.
• Drive DevOps knowledge collection and team training - the DevOps team should be the Gold standard as to how to configure and deploy any component or module.
• Manage the team - recruit, train, allocate tasks, supervise delivery. (Note that you are not expected to be the technical leader).
• Drive adoption of DevOps best practices, including monitoring, incident response, and security hardening.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery.

Location

• This is a full-time, on‑site position in Jerusalem (right at the entrance to the city).

Requirements

• 7+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial capacity
• Experience working with multiple external customers.
• Strong knowledge of version control systems: Git and SVN.
• Strong background in Linux systems administration (preferably RedHat 8).
• Experience with Database applicative versioning
• Experience with large, non-cloud-based systems
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python preferred).
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Experience managing production systems in a mission‑critical environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial industry, especially low‑latency trading systems.
• Familiarity with RPM packaging and software delivery processes.
• Hands‑on experience with MariaDB/MySQL, including DBA‑level management and tuning.
• Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Solace), Solarflare network cards, and BigData tooling.
• Background in optimizing C++ applications on Linux is a strong advantage.
• Knowledge of security best practices on‑prem environments .
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.).
• Expertise in automation tools (Ansible preferred) and infrastructure scripting.
• Experience writing internal technical documentation and release notes.
• Deep understanding of container technologies, especially Docker.