A partner of ours in the crypto-trading space is hiring a DevOps Team Lead to guide a senior team and take ownership of their most critical systems. The role centres on an ultra-low-latency on-prem platform that underpins all trading activity, paired with a modern AWS/EKS environment running their wider services. You’ll step into a position with real influence: shaping reliability, tightening operational discipline, and setting the technical direction for a platform where performance and stability are non-negotiable.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and coordinate a team of three DevOps engineers.
  • Take full ownership of the core on-prem low-latency platform.
  • Manage incidents independently, including structured post-mortems.
  • Improve reliability, monitoring and internal tooling across the environment.
  • Align DevOps with broader engineering groups and influence technical decisions.
  • Raise operational standards without micro-management.
Skills & Experience
  • Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
  • Experience across both on-prem and cloud systems.
  • Solid incident response and operational practice.
  • Strong conceptual understanding; able to learn complex systems quickly.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS and AWS services.
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools (Grafana, Loki).
  • Credible technical leadership in distributed environments.
Conditions & Culture
  • Central Zurich office with a hybrid set-up; regular on-site presence expected, especially in a team-lead role.
  • Direct reporting line to a co-founder of the business.
  • Best suited to someone constructive, pragmatic and curious about trading, crypto or low-latency engineering.
  • Fixed compensation: CHF 150,000.