DevOps Engineer (f/m/d)

Deutsche Börse Group is a leading financial services provider covering the full value chain of trading, clearing, settlement and market data for stocks and derivatives. Our global success is built on highly integrated and automated IT solutions that form the technological backbone of Deutsche Börse and enable companies and investors to access global capital markets efficiently and securely. More than a thousand IT professionals implement strategies across several key Sections, ensuring the competitiveness and innovation power of the entire Group.

Within our XBID & Engineering Section, the M7 XBID & Capacity Operationsunit is seeking a dedicated DevOps Engineerto support our mission-critical products. Our systems form the core market infrastructure for European intraday energy trading. At the center of this ecosystem is XBID, the pan-European platform enabling cross-border intraday electricity trading. As a continuously operating 24/7/365 system, XBID plays a vital role in ensuring real-time energy balancing across Europe, directly contributing to the security and stability of the European power grid.

Your area of work:

Your regular responsibilities within the M7 XBID and Capacity unit will include the daily technical operation (monitoring, deployment, infrastructure administration) of our SaaS applications, middleware and related systems both on cloud & on-premises. As part of our strategic modernization efforts, you will play an active role in the migration of selected test and non-production environments to the cloud, helping shape and implement our future hosting model.

Your long-term initiatives will focus on the improvement of our infrastructure architecture and automation systems with aim to improve product operability and reliability.

As a DevOps evangelist and core product team member, you will automate and enhance process and procedures within this field of responsibility using state-of-the-art instrumentation thereby ensuring stable and consistent production environments. You will be encouraged to propose new methods for operations demonstrating new technological advancements and their benefits to our product. You will be a key operations stakeholder, representing the needs of your product’s operability, sustainability, and performance.

In our product team, we strive to keep up a mentality of continuous improvement with technology-driven people that see themselves as a key part of the decision-making process - reshaping and improving the future of our product.

Your responsibilities:

• Full stack responsibility of M7 XBID and Capacity infrastructure and applications (automate, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot).

• Monitor infrastructure and applications metrics via monitoring/observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, etc.) to ensure performance/capacity management, etc. Maintain and extend implementation of metrics-based monitoring systems.

• Deployment and support of internally developed applications as well as third party software within the production and non-production environments.

• Contribute to the migration of selected test and non-production environments to the cloud, supporting planning, implementation, automation, and operational readiness activities as part of our broader cloud transformation journey.

• Systems administration of Application hosts: upgrading, patching and tuning, capacity and performance management.

• Operational duties include production support shift duty and on-call shifts distributed among the team (and average of one one-week shift and one one-week on-call duty per month might be expected).

• Contribute to evaluation and development of initiatives in the DevOps area, including various AI and automation/containerization/cloud migration projects.

Your profile:

• University degree in Information Technology or a related field

• 3+ years’ prior experience technical operations of high criticality environments.

• Expertise in RedHat Enterprise Linux (installation, system monitoring and maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting, etc.).

• Strong experience with automation, software deployment and orchestration technologies (most relevant being: Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etcd, Git, GitHub).

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform

• Ability to work autonomously and deliver results, including under time pressure.

• Fluency in English

Additionally desired skills:

• Good knowledge of one or more of the following areas: RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Open Search, Grafana

• Understanding and/or experience with DevOps, SRE, Agile working models

• Experience with one or more of the following languages Python/Go/Java

• Understanding of Serverless, Microservices architecture.

• Experience in continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis).