Senior DevOps Engineer

About Elinvar

Elinvar offers asset and wealth managers the digital B2B2C platform for their business: Comprehensive, digital, and customized for each partner’s business model. As part of its comprehensive service portfolio, Elinvar includes “plug and play” state-of-the-art API management for third parties, including customer identification (KYC processes), market data and communication providers. Partners profit from the combination of leading technology and the functional expertise of a licensed portfolio manager. The platform’s microservices architecture ensures Elinvar’s partners sustained competitiveness through fast adaptability and continuous optimization.

Position

Elinvar enables asset & wealth managers to digitalize their business models by providing the required Platform as a Service. This includes applications for core processes as well as third party connections. Our partners profit from the combination of leading technology and the optimal regulatory setup as we hold all necessary BaFin licenses. With this comprehensive approach, we create the unique opportunity for our partners to go digital in one step and to utilize state of the art analytics to create individualized solutions to the benefit of their clients.

About the technical stack: The platform consists of dozens of microservices which are mainly based on Java 11 (Spring) and Node.js. Backend services communicate through Kafka. The backend communicates with frontend through Rest API. Data is stored in Postgres. Services run in Docker containers on three AWS data centers in high availability mode, managed by Kubernetes. The frontend is based on React. We use GitLab for source control and continuous integration. Our development process is based on Scrum with 2-week sprints.

Responsibilities: 

• Extending our monitoring and alerting with a focus on business processes
• Managing the integration of 3rd parties like custodians banks
• Constantly improving the security of the platform
• Working on the Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery process
• Enhancing our highly accessible platform while using the latest technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, Prometheus, Couchbase and Kafka

Your qualification

• University degree or an equivalent education
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• Experience with Linux and scripting languages like BASH, Python
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, AWS is a plus
• Fluent in English and ideally German
• You advocate DevOps philosophy and emphasize effective communication and collaboration between engineering, product, and operations
• You never stop learning and are particularly passionate about technology

What we offer

• Outstanding, highly motivated and international team who values a positive and open working environment
• Tech-driven and focused on excellence in reshaping the wealth management industry by replacing legacy IT with a modern, sustainable IT platform
• Backed by some of the world’s most recognized investors and benefiting from the expertise of a strong leadership team
• Everything you need to excel in your profession – including beverages, (mostly) healthy snacks and barista-style coffee
• Beautiful loft-style office, just a few minutes from Alexanderplatz and surrounded by restaurants, cafés and bars
• 28 vacation days and flexible working hours with the option to work remotely

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Elinvar.