Company

The fintech company stablished in 1997, which has helped shape the online trading industry by merging innovative technology, market movements and digital trends. The multi-awarded online trading platform enables traders to access the market and invest in stocks or trade CFDs with underlying assets being commodities, Forex, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and others. The company is, also, the Official Online Trading Partner of FC Bayern, bringing the exciting worlds of football and trading together. And builds innovative fintech so people can #TradeForMore.

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Infrastructure Engineer with a strong emphasis on network administration to join our dynamic team in the vibrant city of Podgorica, Montenegro.

In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for ensuring the robustness and efficiency of our network systems. Candidates should possess outstanding problem-solving abilities and a deep understanding of network administration and architecture, encompassing essential areas such as IP routing, firewalling, and VPN configurations.

Additionally, familiarity with AWS cloud services is important, and proficiency in Linux operating systems would be considered a valuable asset. Your expertise will be instrumental in enhancing our infrastructure capabilities and supporting our organization's growth.

Main Responsibilities

• Design and deploy functional networks (mostly AWS and some remote physical data-centers using LAN, WAN, VPN, and firewall technologies)
• Monitor network performance and integrity
• Resolve issues and troubleshoot cloud and local infrastructure using a service desk system
• Write infrastructure code. We are using terraform with Terragrunt
• Automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness
• Create, oversee, and test security measures (e.g. access authentication/authorization, disaster recovery)
• Communicate with internal users and Customer Service when needed
• Compile and maintain thorough technical documentation
• Suggest improvements to network performance, capacity, and scalability.

Requirements

Overall 6+ years of experience in IT administration roles

• 3+ years of network administration and architecture in geographically spread environments
• 1+ years of cloud networking (preferably, AWS) with at least medium-sized networks. Experience with Terraform is a plus
• Understanding of communication and dynamic routing protocols (including BGP)
• Understanding of Linux administration and experience with command-line interface
• Combined experience with detailed technical knowledge and hands-on practice working in networks and networks hardening
• Proficiency in access control models and network security
• Working knowledge of network diagnostic, monitoring, and analysis tools (e.g. Wireshark)
• Experience with Service Desk systems (e.g. Jira Service Desk, ZenDesk, Solarwinds) and enterprise-class monitoring systems (e.g. Zabbix, DynaTrace)
• Working knowledge of CDNs (e.g. Cloudflare), DNS, certificates, and domain management
• Spoken English (company's official language) at B2 level (Upper-Intermediate), at least

Additional Skills and knowledge preferred

• Experience with FreeBSD, Cisco, Checkpoint
• Advanced experience with Linux
• Solid knowledge of network operating systems (JUNOS, Cisco IOS)
• Working knowledge and troubleshooting skills of scripting languages (e.g. bash, Python, Perl)
• Professional certifications (e.g. BSD Specialist, Ubuntu Professional, CCNA)
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Company's benefits

• Work in a pleasant and enjoyable environment near the Montenegrin sea or mountains
• Quarterly bonuses based on Company performance
• Generous relocation package for the employee and their immediate family/partner 
• Medical Insurance Plan with coverage for the employee and their immediate family from day one
• 24 working days of annual leave 
• Yearly reimbursement of travel expenses for the employee and family's flight home
• Corporate events and team building activities
• Udemy Business unlimited membership & language training courses 
• Professional and personal development opportunities in a fast-growing environment 

Project description and requirements for Background to the assignment

The company provides Data Science support for chemistry product development and support R&D. This includes the design and development of production-ready web application to serve the developed data science model to the end-user and other things.

Therefore, the development requires a secure setup of Azure services according to an existing system architecture. To keep compliance with company's standards, the setup needs to be automated using Terraform and should follow Microsoft recommendations for security and networking. There is also a need for a proper test environment concept and deployment automation for the web application components according to the concept.

Consequently, we need an expert with sufficient expertise in connection with Azure Serverless technologies in a secure setup and their automated deployment, handling of test environment as well as logging and monitoring of serverless applications.

Backlog items will be assigned in Azure DevOps containing business requirements and acceptance criteria.

Workload based on Agile environment, 2 weeks sprints. With Sprint meetings once in two weeks and Daily meetings.

Tasks

Automation of build and deployment of web app components based on Docker container and Azure serverless technologies

• Staged deployment and test environment concept for App Service apps and Function App APIs
• Concept for deployment and hosting of API specs
• Concept for deployment and hosting of code documentation
• Concept for logging and monitoring of serverless functions App Service apps and Function App APIs

Automation of Azure services provisioning based on Terraform

• Setup of Azure App Service, Function App under consideration of Azure security recommendations and automation via Terraform
• Setup of Cosmos DB under consideration of Azure security recommendations and automation via Terraform

Documentation of technical implementation which is subject to approval by the client.