About HQLAᵡ
HQLAᵡ is an innovative financial technology firm that leverages Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to deliver efficiencies to the global securities finance and repo industry. Its platform enables banks and asset managers to achieve frictionless, precise, and real-time collateral mobility. Learn more at: https://www.hqla-x.com/
To reinforce our Technology team, we are looking for a motivated Ops Engineer. HQLAᵡ has offices in Luxembourg (LU), Zug (CH) and London (UK). This opportunity exists in Luxembourg.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the daily IT operations of the production platform such as monitoring, security management, change management and incident management.
- Design and maintain a highly reliable and secure production environment, including logging, monitoring, analytics, etc.
- Write and maintain documentation about the HQLAᵡ platform and the systems supporting it.
- Maintain and enhance the Continuous Integration environment for the HQLAᵡ software platform.
- Coordinate the rollout of new releases across all nodes of the HQLAᵡ Corda Business Network.
- Hands-on development and fixing of key components of the HQLAᵡ collateral exchange platform.
- Investigate and resolve incidents.
- Engage and collaborate with technology partners to enhance the overall technology architecture of the HQLAᵡ platform for customers.
- Participate in threat modelling, audits, due diligence, vendor risk assessments and other risk-related activities.
- Coordinate and participate in penetration tests and disaster recovery tests.
- Cover part of an on-call rota to provide production support.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field. We specifically expect up-to-date knowledge in these areas: networking, relational databases, security.
- Solid grasp of modern DevSecOps practices (version control, continuous integration/delivery, GitOps, acceptance testing, etc.). Significant hands-on experience in the fields of software development and operations.
- A self-starter attitude and willingness to roll up your sleeves to help HQLAᵡ achieve its goals.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including a strong command of English, both written and spoken.
- Strong coordination and communication skills to effectively coordinate test and deployment activities across stakeholders, partners, contractors, and vendors.
- Strong organizational skills and a structured work methodology in all tasks and projects.
- Good understanding of the operational and security requirements that come with operating in a regulated, financial environment.
- Knowledge of SOC2, ISO27001 or other related standards is a plus.
- Knowledge of blockchain principles is a plus but not essential.
- Hands-on, multiyear experience in the following areas is a requirement:
- Unix/Linux: installing, configuring and troubleshooting Unix/Linux-based environments, preferably for a financial services institution.
- Containerization: building, optimizing, managing and securing container images.
- Container Orchestration: Experience with Helm and Kubernetes to manage workloads and operators, OpenShift and ArgoCD experience is a plus.
- Networking: TCP/IP, firewalls, load balancers, NAT, DNS, proxy configuration.
- Security: certificate and key management, HSMs, PKI, TLS, VPNs, OIDC, vulnerability management, penetration testing.
- Databases: PostgreSQL database administration experience, with resilience (backup and restore) and highly available (HA) setups.
- Cloud: automated management of test and production environments (using Ansible and Terraform); Azure experience is a plus.
- Testing: creating test plans, coordinating tests, executing tests (acceptance, performance, load, security).
- Message broker/steaming: Configuring and operating message brokers (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc.) and Message Streaming (Kafka, RedPanda, etc.)
- Monitoring: using stacks such as Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, etc.
- Scripting: Python, shell.
- JVM: building, packaging, distributing, deploying, tuning, and monitoring of JVM based application stacks.
- Version Control: git
- Incident management and incident response.
What we offer
- A team of dynamic and energetic professionals within a challenging and knowledge sharing environment.
- Technical challenges unique to the fintech industry.
- An attractive and competitive benefits package.
- Flexible work-from-home arrangements.
HQLAᵡ is committed to building a diverse team. We encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply.
Interested in this role?
Please apply in English at careers@hqla-x.com
HQLAX is committed to building a diverse team. We encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply.
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