Senior WinOps Engineer

About the Job
As a Senior WinOps Engineer, you'll be based in our bustling office in Dubai's Business Bay, at the core of Deriv's global operations. This role places you at the forefront of driving innovation and excellence within our WinOps team. You'll pioneer innovative solutions to automate our trading platform's deployment, configuration, and maintenance, ensuring that our infrastructure remains at the cutting edge of technology. Dubai offers a cosmopolitan living experience with rich cultural opportunities, making it an exciting place to work.

Your Challenges and Mission

• Collaborate within a multi-cultural team, enhancing your working practices while maintaining infrastructure and crafting systems that empower our global workforce.
• Design, deploy, and maintain large-scale cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS and GCP, ensuring our digital landscape remains robust and scalable.
• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Optimise cloud costs by analysing usage patterns, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing cost-saving strategies.
• Utilise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to automate provisioning, configuration, and management of infrastructure resources.
• Ensure high availability of production environments and minimise downtime through proactive monitoring, rapid troubleshooting, and effective incident response.
• Employ Agile methodology to deliver incremental improvements and adopt quickly to changing requirements.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve systems and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role and capability to contribute as an individual contributor or in a leadership capacity.
• Proficiency in Windows systems administration, including troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of networking principles and TCP/IP stacks.
• Experience with large-scale cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS and GCP.
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices and compliance standards.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and concepts.
• Understanding of Agile methodology, CI/CD concepts, and Git versioning.
• Ability to write and review scripts with a focus on automation and process improvement.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot under pressure.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, effective in a team environment.
• Develop and maintain monitoring solutions to ensure the health and performance of cloud environments.

What's Good to Have

• Familiarity with an additional development language such as Python, Go, C++, or .NET.
• Knowledge of MetaTrader 5 (MT5) Administration.
• Familiarity with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with configuration management platforms like Octopus Deploy.
• Proficiency in Linux System Administration.

Benefits

• Market-based salary.
• Annual performance bonus.
• Medical insurance.
• Housing and transportation allowance.
• Casual dress code.
• Opportunities to work with top talent from across the globe.
• Ample team-building and bonding activities.
• Great overseas travel opportunities.

Join us at Deriv to redefine the future of accessible online trading and transform financial markets together.