Staff Platform Engineer

FTMO recently acquired OANDA Group, one of the world’s leading online trading groups, and we’re now looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to help run the infrastructure behind OANDA’s global trading platform.

As a member of the Platform Engineering team at OANDA, you are responsible for providing the infrastructure to efficiently and reliably serve our applications to OANDA customers. You will manage the underlying hardware and operating systems to deliver a high-availability, fault-tolerant global platform spanning on-premise and cloud environments. In addition, you will provide a platform for application delivery based on modern orchestration and automation tools to enable the product development teams to quickly and safely deploy, while ensuring continued adherence to OANDA security and engineering standards.

What will you do?

• Work on the design and configuration of hybrid network solutions such as hardware and software load balancers, firewalls and interconnectivity and routing between our production environments.

• Design, build and operate cloud and on-premise environment using Infrastructure as Code approach.

• Automate system administration of VMWare, Linux and Windows servers and virtual hosts.

• Deploy modern distributed observability and monitoring tools to measure service levels and improve performance and availability of our systems.

• Respond to, and resolve, production incidents. Contribute detailed feedback to our postmortem process and translate event learnings into infrastructure and application improvements.

• Work on cross-functional teams to research and deploy innovative products and technologies that improve our velocity, reliability, and performance.

What do you bring to the table?

• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering

• Terraform

• Google Cloud Platform

• Ansible

• Kubernetes

• Prometheus stack

What would be nice to have?

• Experience with scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell

• Experience with Mimir, Splunk, Loki, Grafana, Cloudflare and general networking

Why join the FTMO team?

• We are a Czech fintech that, since 2015, has grown from an idea into a global project. 🚀

• 300+ amazing teammates. We’re a great team who learn from each other every day.🤜🤛

• How do we work? We focus on meaningful work and open communication, while only adopting processes that make our lives easier.

• Prague, Národní třída. Enjoy our modern offices at the Quadrio shopping center, offering beautiful views and excellent accessibility.

• What if I don’t trade? No worries. We’ll show you what our product is all about and introduce you to the basics of trading.

• Free fruit, snacks, and coffee are always within reach in the office.

• How do we promote strong relationships and well-being? Company cottage, team building events, and running club.

• Flexible hybrid model. We prefer collaborating in person to keep the team spirit high, but we offer the flexibility you need to stay balanced.
  

*The benefits mentioned above apply to FTMO on-site employees in our Prague office.