Platform Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Milan
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About MDOTM
MDOTM is a global leading provider of AI-driven investment solutions, growing across our offices in
London, Milan, and New York
. We recently closed a
$27M growth equity round
, led by Expedition Growth Capital, to support our continued international expansion. Our proprietary platform, Sphere, currently supports over $100B in assets under management for institutional clients including Morgan Stanley, Amundi, and Zurich Bank.
Role Overview
MDOTM, a leading provider of AI-driven investment solutions, is looking for an Intermediate DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Team. You will play a key role in supporting, enhancing, and maintaining the foundational infrastructure and tools that empower our product teams — contributing to a reliable, scalable, and efficient developer platform that enables fast and secure software delivery for Sphere, our proprietary AI-driven investment platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and automation of
CI/CD pipelines
(GitLab CI/CD) to ensure fast, safe, and repeatable releases across all environments. - Assist in the adoption and
management of Infrastructure
as Code using Terraform and Ansible, helping provision and manage on-premise and AWS resources in a controlled, auditable, and reproducible manner. - Work with
Docker
and
Kubernetes
to package and operate services, contributing to declarative configuration, GitOps practices, and efficient resource utilization. - Help implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Zabbix), and participate in on-call rotations to ensure high availability and low Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).
- Contribute to embedding security best practices (OWASP Top 10, least privilege IAM, shift-left testing) into the SDLC and help automate security controls within pipelines.
- Support the management and automation of database infrastructure (MySQL, MongoDB), including provisioning, backups, and automated schema migrations.
- Automate and support the deployment, scaling, and operational health of core platform services (authentication, data pipelines, messaging) for internal consumers.
- Participate in technical design discussions, learn from architectural decisions related to infrastructure and operations, and help document runbooks and standards.
- Champion DevOps culture ("you build it, you run it") and share knowledge through demos, pair programming, and internal workshops.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in a
DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering
(SRE) role, with a focus on automation, infrastructure, and CI/CD - Hands-on experience
working with and contributing to CI/CD pipelines - Practical experience with Docker and exposure to Kubernetes, including writing Dockerfiles and debugging containerized applications
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Experience with at least one monitoring, logging, or alerting system (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Zabbix), and curiosity for SRE principles
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash) for automating common tasks
- Basic understanding of security best practices in the SDLC
- Good analytical skills and a methodical approach to troubleshooting system and infrastructure issues
- Clear English communication, collaborative spirit, and a growth mindset aligned with a culture of shared ownership and rapid feedback
Bonus points:
- Experience with
event-driven systems
(e.g., ActiveMQ) - Contributions to open-source projects
- Familiarity with backend development concepts (e.g., Java/Spring Boot)
- Working knowledge of AWS fundamentals (EC2, S3, IAM)
- Financial-services or high-throughput data processing background
Why Join Us?
- Work at the leading edge of technology, leveraging our decade of experience in proprietary AI to power a platform trusted by top-tier institutional clients.
- Truly flexible work environment, we care about output, not hours logged.
- Collaborate daily with an ultra-international team (18+ nationalities) across our Milan, London, and New York offices.
- Annual company retreat at a stunning location, because we invest in our people beyond the day job.
- Real, fast-track career progression, with outsized growth opportunities for early team members.
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