About us
Archax is an FCA-regulated exchange, broker and custodian for digital assets, targeted at professional and institutional clients. Our services cover all types of digital assets – from cryptocurrencies to NFTs to digital securities – as well as traditional financial instruments too. Our vision is to develop a truly digital capital markets ecosystem that bridges traditional and crypto markets, leveraging tokenisation and blockchain/DLT/Web3.0 technologies.
Archax pH7 Inc. is an information technology company providing software and application development, back-office tech support and a wide range of consultancy / advisory services to its clients in the fintech industry. Archax PH7 Inc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Archax Groups Ltd (UK).
The Role
An interesting opportunity has arisen that would allow the successful applicant to join a start-up to help deliver the software platform for a new digital asset securities exchange; focused on an institutional client base. The ideal applicant will bring previous experience of building scalable mission critical systems on the Amazon AWS cloud services.
This role is varied. We are seeking someone with a general all-round skill set that is used to simply getting stuck in. It is vital you possess good communication skills and are comfortable dealing with all levels of the business.
The right applicant will have experience being a hands-on technical leader able to operate in the weeds when necessary but also at improving processes and technical operations across the group. The infrastructure team operates as one across the globe. Applicants should be comfortable supporting and working with all clients across any location and at any level.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
- Implementation of cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS.
- Responsible in using command line and Kubernetes manifests to deploy in AWS EKS clusters.
- Implementing Ingress/egress and routing policies within AWS and EKS
- Linux administration, maintenance, and optimisation
- Securing Linux systems, containers, and pipelines
- Deployment automation, monitoring and maintaining cloud infrastructure (AWS), including monitoring and alerting.
- Strong Jenkins, Jenkinsfile, Kubernetes and Docker
- Operate Jenkins servers and build agents
- Manage Jenkins webhooks, scheduled jobs, node tainting/executor control
- Operate Grafana/Prometheus for estate monitoring
- Coding responsibility (Bash, Groovy, Jenkins file, Python)
- Ansible and Terraform coding to provision and configure infrastructure
- Agile Working (SCRUM, Kanban)
- Works with CI/CD life cycle across nonproduction and production environments
- Working with Development teams (local and multinational global teams) (exposure to Software Development Lifecycle)
- Working with QA engineers and SDETs to provide automated testing
- Work with DBA team to help with infrastructure automation and support
- Facilitate disruptive testing by working with development and QA teams during the scheduled testing window
Other Skills and Experience:
- At least 10+ years relevant DevOps experience
- Experience with AWS CloudFormation
- Experience in finance with real time trading systems/market data
- Experience in working in a regulated financial firm
- Experienced in working with early-stage start-up team and multinational global teams
Archax is an equal opportunities employer and places a high value on diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on any attribute
