DevOps Engineer - OTC Trading Platform at wintermute-trading

About Wintermute Wintermute is one of the largest algorithmic trading companies in digital assets. We provide liquidity algorithmically across all major  cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, a broad range of OTC trading solutions as well as support high profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto. Wintermute is not just a trading company, it is one the most prominent and influential players in the digital asset markets: we are connected and partnering with all major players in the industry, we actively participate in the development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments, partnerships, and incubation of projects. You can read more here. Working at Wintermute   Wintermute is a global company with offices in London and Singapore. It opened its US office in early 2025 and it is set to grow significantly over the next several years. It’s a unique opportunity to play a role in the early rapid expansion of Wintermute Americas.   Role overview We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Liquidity Integration  team in New York. Liquidity team is a global team supporting Wintermute’s signature OTC platform that covers thousands of counterparties trading via API and Wintermute NODE platform. The team is responsible for design of efficient and CP centric integration and support processes as well as operational support throughout the CP lifecycle.   You will be responsible for global integrations and support with a specific focus on US hours and US counterparties. You will work closely with business development, product, traders, engineers, and global DevOps teams in London and Singapore providing counterparty technical integration/support, platform stability, performance, and resilience. Key responsibilities: • Own production stability and incident response for the OTC Trading platform during US market hours • Technically onboard and support counterparties integrating via FIX-API into the platform. • Own and drive the counterparty integration pipeline, actively managing onboarding timelines, unblocking integrations, and ensuring counterparties progress efficiently from testing to production. • Guide counterparties through the FIX conformance testing process, ensuring message formats, session handling, and workflows meet platform requirements. • Gather feedback from trading partners on API usability, integration performance, latency, and onboarding experience, turning insights into improvements for product and engineering roadmaps. • Act as the first point of escalation for platform incidents, performance degradation, and infrastructure issues, delivering clear communication and timely status updates during outages or performance degradation. • Drive rapid triage, mitigation, and root‑cause analysis of production issues • Collaborate with London and Singapore DevOps teams. • Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across trading systems • Support smooth, reliable, and efficient deployments and releases across the trading platform. • Automate operational workflows to reduce manual intervention • Contribute to runbooks, incident postmortems, and operational best practices • Partner with business development, product, engineering, trading, and compliance teams to support platform growth. Required experience and skills • 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles • Experience communicating with external counterparties. • FIX protocol, SQL • Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, latency, packet loss) • Solid scripting skills (Python) • Strong experience supporting low‑latency, or high‑availability systems • Hands‑on expertise with Linux production environments • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana) • Excellent communication skills and experience working across global, distributed team Preferred experience • Experience supporting trading platforms, financial systems, or crypto/OTC markets • Familiarity with FIX, market connectivity, or exchange integrations • Scripting for automation (Python) What we offer • Competitive salary and benefits package • Opportunity to play a foundational role in scaling our US trading operations • Collaborative global team with strong engineering culture Note: • Please ensure you are eligible to work in the US, at the moment Wintermute USA is unfortunately not able to sponsor US visas; if visa is a consideration for you, feel free to apply to the UK or Singapore offices where we offer visas and potential longer term reallocation to the US.