DevOps Team Lead

We believe the financial markets can and should work for everyone. Capitolis is the technology company helping to create safer and more vibrant financial markets by unlocking capital constraints and enabling greater access to more diversified capital and investment opportunities. Rooted in advanced technology and deep financial expertise, Capitolis powers groundbreaking financial solutions that drive growth for global and regional banks – and institutional investors alike. Capitolis is backed by world class venture capital firms, including Canapi Ventures, 9Yards Capital, SVB Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, and S Capital, as well as leading global banks such as Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered, State Street and UBS.

Founded in 2017, our team brings decades of experience in launching successful startups, technology, and financial services. Capitolis was recognized on the Inc. 2024 Best in Business list in the Financial Services and Innovation & Technology categories, and honored for the third consecutive year in the 2025 Euromoney Foreign Exchange Awards. The company has been included on CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies list for the past three years, Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 list in consecutive years and was named to Fast Company's prestigious annual list of The World's Most Innovative Companies for 2023. American Banker recognized Capitolis among the Best Places to Work in Fintech, and the company was named by Crain's New York Business as one of New York City's Best Places to Work in 2025 for the fourth consecutive year. For more information, please visit our website at www.capitolis.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Capitolis is looking for a passionate, experienced and curious DevOps Team Lead to lead a team of engineers while remaining hands-on in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex financial infrastructures in a highly regulated environment. The role is a mix of ~30% team leadership and ~70% hands-on engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership (~30%)

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers, including 1:1s, performance feedback, and professional development
• Own team planning, prioritization, and delivery of infrastructure roadmaps
• Represent the team in cross-functional discussions and communicate complex solutions to stakeholders
• Drive best practices, standards, and knowledge-sharing across the team
  
  

• Enhance business continuity of Production systems in the finance sector
• Develop and deploy critical infrastructure changes to Production
• Deploy & manage advanced security solutions to protect high-value trades and transactions
• Support an exactly-once, zero-data-loss transaction processing system
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure automation and configuration management tools
• Design and implement orchestration solutions for dozens of containerized micro-services
• Support, improve, and upgrade a continuous deployment environment
• Support, improve, and update the DevOps technology stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Python, ELK & more
  
  

• At least 10 years of industry experience in R&D/QA/IT
• At least 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, including some experience leading or mentoring others
• Hands-on experience supporting business continuity of Critical Production Systems
• Proven experience delivering & communicating complex solutions to stakeholders
• Corporate Information Security hands-on experience
• Broad understanding of networking
• Experienced with continuous integration tools
• Experience with IaC of a cloud provider (preferably Terraform & AWS)
• At least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Groovy, Bash)
• Experienced with Kubernetes, Docker container management and orchestration
• Experience in Windows & Linux server system administration – a plus
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and communication skills in English
• Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, able to work in a fast-paced environment, and comfortable balancing leadership with hands-on delivery
  
  

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with CI/CD integrations with SCM and code review tools
• Experience with Helm Charts
• Experience with ArgoCD
• Experience with Cloud Cost reduction
• Proven Database Administration experience
• Familiarity with database security best practices
  
  

• We lead with purpose, while creating exceptional value
• We pursue big breakthroughs, responsibly
• We learn from the best and are unapologetically independent
• We are obsessed with the future and fanatical about executing today
• We play tough, with heart
  
  

• Super Smart: quality thinking and know what good looks like
• Badass: all in, get stuff done, and high standards
• Good Human: collaborative, open-minded, authentic and real, and pursue self-actualization