Head of Infrastructure

Position Profile

If you’re the type of individual who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where you are developing and implementing new solutions, then the area of responsibilities would be quite impressive for you. The scope includes providing all infrastructure solutions in the company: databases, servers, network, VOIP, etc. Ensuring that Exness Technology teams is well provided with orchestration services in the clouds (AWS, alicloud) and on-premise based on k8s, services based on the PaaS model (Kafka, Redis, Keycloak, etc.), telemetry infrastructure (Grafana, Graylog, Jaeger including agents for collecting logs, metrics and traces).

Responsibilities

• Our main goal is to provide stable solutions, but we must continue implementing end-edge technologies to support product and brand awareness innovations.
• Build modern infrastructure for all core business domains with the best market solutions, including low latency network and infrastructure for high load services.
• Maintain a balance between using on-prem solutions and third-party clouds.
• Build solutions for fast scaling up of the internal cloud by business request or organic load.
• Build reliable infrastructure, resistant to failures of its parts.
• Build observable internal cloud with a comprehensive system for responding to emerging issues.
• Set up processes of forecasting internal cloud services load and preventing procurement procedures.
• Form a strategy of growing the internal cloud and its parts according to company strategy.
• Build internal cloud as a trustful partner of production tribes Exness Technology and business stakeholders. Coordinating with other teams (Trading, Finance, Legal, HR, Customer & IB care, and others) at strategic and operational levels. Following an ambitious Exness business strategy and be ready to scale up.
• The business growth is fast, and the internal cloud teams have to provide the best service following the speed of business growth.
• Drive geo decentralized infrastructure and solutions. Exness has retail clients in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South Africa. We must provide the best service, synchronized conditions around the world.
• Set up and establish SLAs for team solutions. Adjusting the SLAs with stakeholders.

Requirements

• You’re e & a successful professional who led 50 to 150 technical specialists in reporting line guided by a few Senior direct reports (3-5).
• Experience with virtualization solutions (VMware or similar) design, implementation, maintenance & support.
• Networking knowledge: routers & switches, firewalls, LAN / WAN, VLANs. Experience with low latency networks is a huge plus.
• Server, storage & associated network hardware. Experience with the usage of ARM architecture is a plus.
• Databases: enterprise and open-source relational databases, NoSQL databases.
• Experience with data lakes and big data solutions is a plus.
• Cloud Technologies: AWS is preferable, or other cloud solutions.
• Experience with container orchestration, Kubernetes, is preferable.
• Experience with telemetry solutions. E.g: Graylog, Grafana, Jaeger, etc.
• Experience with VOIP as a plus.
• You’re excellent with process and people management skills, and you’re able to combine your passion for technology with effective communication skills and enjoy challenges, problem-solving, and a fast-paced environment.
• You have experience managing the performance and development of high-performing Engineers, including seniors and leads.
• You’re a fantastic communicator and can easily collaborate with other departments cross-functionally.

We offer you

• A fairly estimated and attractive package (competitive salary based on your expectations and internal benchmark) with the ability to start working remotely anywhere in the world.
• Company Car — the company will provide Exness-branded cars to those who relocated, parking near the office or a bus tickets.
• We’ll pay school or kindergarten fees (Annual Registration or Tuition Fees, Regular term fees, Half day service to kindergartens) for your children between 0 years — 18 years, up to three (3) children.
• L&D — support your need to replenish your knowledge and acquire new skills to do your job better via: Continuous product education, Professional training & Certifications, Soft skill trainings, Language classes and our very own Exness library.
• Sports Benefits — Our very own Sports Club with dedicated coaches doing group and individual training, on site and on-line, sharing healthy recipes and life hacks + Free Club Membership for you and your spouse.
• Medical — in addition to having a Corporate Doctor, we cooperate with one of the biggest international insurance companies in order to provide medical insurance for you and your families.