DevOps Engineer

About the company

Engelhart was established in 2013 by BTG Pactual Group as a commodities trading business. The firm follows an asset-light and broadly diversified model, which helps it respond quickly to changing market conditions. Its teams combine deep quantitative research, weather analysis, strong risk management, and technology-led operations. The company is built around collaboration and brings together people with varied global backgrounds and long experience across multiple disciplines.

In 2024, Engelhart acquired Trailstone, a global energy trading and technology business. Through this acquisition, the company gained additional expertise, analytics, and proprietary technology that supports risk management and optimization services for renewable power. It also expanded into physical natural gas in North America, which plays an important role in the energy transition.

Engelhart’s culture is shaped by four core values: Performance, Agility, Collaboration, and Entrepreneurship.

Role overview

Engelhart is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help design, protect, and scale its hybrid energy trading infrastructure. The role sits between algorithmic trading teams, risk systems, and operations, with responsibility for building reliable delivery pipelines and infrastructure that connect on-premises high-performance clusters with AWS environments. A key focus of the position is keeping systems highly available and ensuring ultra-low-latency data delivery during periods of market volatility.

This is a full-time position and can be based either in Berlin, Germany, or Houston, Texas, due to the international setup of the team.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve scalable cloud environments primarily in AWS, with some work in Azure as well.
• Set up strong observability through logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security checks, and release orchestration.
• Maintain the CI/CD platform and support pipeline creation and deployment workflows.
• Drive DevSecOps practices, including infrastructure hardening, IAM policy management, secrets handling, compliance automation, and pipeline security scanning.
• Support application containerization and container orchestration activities.
• Collaborate with international colleagues to ensure application compatibility, performance, and operational effectiveness across the stack.
• Define and promote DevOps standards, best practices, and adoption strategy across the organization.

Requirements

• Hands-on background in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure engineering with strong AWS experience.
• Practical knowledge of Linux, containers, and related ecosystem tools.
• Solid experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Advanced experience with database platforms such as SQL Server, MySQL, and Amazon Aurora.
• Strong coding and scripting ability in Python, Bash, Terraform, and AWS CDK.
• Excellent written communication, problem-solving ability, and process management skills.
• Comfort working with an international team.
• Nice to have: experience with Atlassian tools such as Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Nice to have: experience running CI/CD in a hybrid cloud setup.
• Nice to have: exposure to serverless architectures.
• Nice to have: experience applying an everything-as-code approach to configuration and infrastructure.
• Nice to have: familiarity with backend testing frameworks.
• Nice to have: exposure to finance or fintech environments.

Perks and benefits

• Competitive pay along with participation in Engelhart’s discretionary bonus plan.
• 28 days of annual leave, plus Berlin public holidays.
• €3,000 per year contributed toward a private pension plan.
• €20 monthly allowance for BVG tickets.
• €25 monthly subsidy for a ClassPass membership.
• Support for German language courses.
• Friendly, sociable workplace with an open international culture.

Inclusion statement

Engelhart emphasizes an inclusive workplace and aims to make employees of all gender identities, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and life experiences feel welcome and valued. The company treats diversity as essential to thoughtful decision-making and a more holistic way of working.

Additional information

This is a permanent full-time role. The position is based onsite, with the work location listed as Berlin, Germany, while the role overview also notes that Houston, Texas is an alternative base because of the team’s international footprint.