🚀 DevOps Engineer

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) is a financial technology firm that is modernizing the equity capital markets (ECM). 

CMG connects investors and underwriters via a neutral platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, transparency, and workflow efficiencies. Providing a digital system of record for firm-wide deal activity, CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, the CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 100 buy-side firms representing $20 trillion in AUM and 15 investment banks. 

In June 2020, CMG announced its Series B investment of $25 million from top financial firms such as Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley (see here). CMG’s goal is to alleviate pain points resulting from disparate solutions, fragmented data, and frenzied communication. CMG’s DataLab product solves data analytics, while CMG’s XC platform establishes connectivity between buy- and sell-side firms.

CMG’s team is predominantly located in the USA, and since 2019 CMG has also been expanding its team in Brno, Czechia. 

The office in Brno is operated by OAK'S LAB.

THE ROLE

We are searching for an engineer focused on our DevOps, infrastructure, reliability, and tooling. While this is a DevOps position, you'll be part of a team focused on building and maintaining an enterprise-level, cloud infrastructure for microservices, and cloud-native applications running on Kubernetes. The person who joins our team will be encouraged and empowered to influence new solutions that will keep our technology running smoothly and with high availability for our customers. 

OUR ENGINEERING TEAM

The CMG engineering team consists of domain experts who work collaboratively within a culture of cross-domain knowledge sharing. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices. 

Our engineers are encouraged to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our code-base and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions using bleeding edge technologies such as AI and bring recommendations to the table. We are in a period of making impactful engineering decisions. 

As part of our process, we believe in taking the time for research and prototyping - this is critical in making the right decisions. Given the experience of our team, we have naturally adopted best practices from local development, through code review and into production rollouts. Besides the standard pull requests, test automation, code coverage tracking, containerization, and one-click deployments we are constantly reviewing these foundational components to develop new best practices. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement tools and technologies to provision and configure an enterprise software system hosted in Kubernetes 
• Design and implement architecture and networking solutions within Azure 
• Automate/script existing processes using languages such as python and bash 
• Provision, configure, and maintain cloud resources using Terraform and Terragrunt 
• Actively monitor the application environment and respond to incidents 
• Conduct root cause analysis for production incidents 
• Oversee cloud infrastructure and recommend any potential improvements to technology or process 
• Contribute to team planning to solve engineering challenges 
• Be a dependable and highly skilled development resource for peers through education and review 
• Have a broad awareness of related projects and industry trends, and encourage innovative practices among peers 
• Provide detailed feedback and suggestions to team code reviews 
• Document and demonstrate solutions through written documentation, diagrams, and readable code 

REQUIREMENTS

• Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Docker: 2+ years 
• Azure cloud infrastructure: 2+ years 
• Experience with system monitoring and alerting. Data-driven system improvements using DataDog and/or Grafana: 2+ years 
• Experience supporting, configuring, deploying RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch: 1+ years 
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Github Actions, ArgoCD or Harness: 2+ years 
• Experience supporting customer-facing web-delivered software: 2+ years 
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux 
• Bash and Python experience 
• Excellent communication skills in English 

OUR TECH STACK

• React - We’re all in on React – we maintain multiple single-page React apps 
• TypeScript – 99% of our codebase is TypeScript 
• Latest .NET version for our backend services 
• GraphQL - Our standard for API communication is GraphQL served by our DotNet Back-End 
• PostgreSQL for relational db 
• NX monorepo to share components and tools between our applications with ease 
• Jest/Testing Library - Unit tests are delivered within every commit 
• Material UI - CMG’s design system is built on a tried and true component library 
• DataDog, Grafana and OpenTelemetry 
• GitHub for our Version Control and CI 
• Docker + Kubernetes for microservice orchestration using Istio service mesh 
• Storybook and Figma to design, prototype, and document our UI components 
• Playwright and own data-seeding framework for E2E testing 

OUR VALUES 

• We innovate with purpose
• We focus on outcomes vs. output
• We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation
• We are humble yet candid
• We do right by the customer

WHAT WE OFFER

• Unlimited vacation
• Meal vouchers paid in full by the company
• Multisport card contribution
• Pension contributions
• Language courses
• Centrally located office in the heart of Brno
• Bi-weekly team lunches provided by the company
• Tech courses and conferences
• Top-of-the-line MacBook
• Company team-building events
• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home

At CMG, we accept nothing less than equity, inclusion and belonging for all. We are deeply committed to listening, learning and constantly improving for the betterment of our teams, clients and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.