Head of DevOps

About Fluent Trade Technologies

Fluent Trade Technologies is a premier global fintech software company delivering ultra-low latency trading and market data solutions to the world’s largest banks and hedge funds. We specialize in cutting-edge technology that engineers mission-critical financial systems. With a major R&D center in Jerusalem and global hubs across Europe and Asia, Fluent offers a dynamic, fast-paced, and collaborative environment driven by innovation and excellence.

Company Website: www.fluenttech.net

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

Requirements:

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.