Hybrid Senior Windows Core DevOps Engineer in Athens, Greece
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Job Description
We are looking for Senior Windows Core DevOps Engineer to work for an award-winning Forex company. Hybrid model of work in Athens Greece!
- 3 days on-site
- 2 days remote
Our client is an internationally acclaimed multi-asset broker delivering cutting-edge trading tools platforms and conditions to traders worldwide. They are committed to innovation transparency and excellence in the financial markets.
As a Senior Windows Core DevOps Engineer you will lead the design automation and operations of core infrastructure services built around the Microsoft ecosystem. This is a senior-level engineering role focused on modernizing Windows-based systems introducing infrastructure as code across Windows workloads and ensuring scalable secure and resilient infrastructure across the stack.
The Role:
- Architect and automate core Windows infrastructure (AD DNS DHCP Group Policy IIS Windows Clustering etc.) in a high-availability trading environment.
- Lead projects to refactor and modernize legacy Windows-based systems transitioning them into fully automated testable and observable components.
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD workflows using modern Microsoft-native and cross-platform tooling.
- Troubleshoot and optimize system performance at the OS networking and application level across a large fleet of Windows servers.
- Define and implement secure baselines monitoring patching and compliance across Windows infrastructure.
- Build PowerShell modules DSC configurations and leverage tools like Ansible SaltStack or Terraform with Windows providers to unify automation.
- Act as the highest escalation point for Windows-related production issues.
- Partner with other Core DevOps Security SRE and Cloud teams to standardize and scale our Windows platform.
- Mentor engineers across teams and promote best practices in observability resilience and automation-first thinking.
Requirements:
- 8 years of experience with enterprise-level Windows Server engineering and DevOps practices.
- Deep expertise with DNS DFS IIS and Windows Failover Clustering.
- Solid experience with automation and configuration management using PowerShell (advanced scripting) Desired State Configuration (DSC) and/or Ansible/SaltStack for Windows.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts applied to Windows environments using GitLab Azure DevOps or similar tools.
- Hands-on experience integrating Windows infrastructure with hybrid or cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS).
- Experience with infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform (including Windows modules) or CDK.
- Strong grasp of Windows performance tuning debugging event log analysis and patching strategy at scale.
- Background in regulated or high-uptime environments such as banking Forex or fintech is highly preferred.
- Familiarity with SQL Server Core deployments and Windows Containers is a plus.
- Comfortable leading incident response and system-level post-mortems for Windows-based production outages.
- Exposuretoobservabilitytools(PrometheusGrafana ELK/GraylogJaegeretc.).
- Familiaritywithcontainerization(Docker) andorchestrationbasics(Kubernetes).
- Awarenessofinfrastructureautomationtools(TerraformAnsibleSaltStack).
- Basicknowledgeof RESTAPIsforautomationandintegrations.
- Exposuretomicroservicesconceptsanddistributedsystems.
**Applicants must be eligible or have legal authorization to work in the country where the position is based.
Benefits:
- Hybrid Work Model(2 days working from home).
- 22 days of Annual Leave(reaching up to 30 days per year based on years service)
- Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance(from day one!)
- Friday afternoons off in Summer(July & August)
- Birthday Leave
- Gym Membership(Larnaca)
- Referral Bonus
- Paid Time Off for Training & Education
About Us Worldwiders
Worldwiders is a global B2B-oriented recruitment company that specializes in executive search and specialist recruitment worldwide. Since our journey began in 2016 we have become the go-to partner for tailor-made recruitment solutions connecting top talent with prestigious opportunities across the globe. With a proven track record of over 6500 successful placements and 400 satisfied partners in 40 countries our expertise ensures that we match each talent and company with the best opportunities to drive career growth and organizational success.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Dhcp
- SQL
- Active Directory
- OS
- Windows
- System Administrations
- Trouble Shooting
- Database
- Infrastructure
- Linux
- SAN
- Poweshell
- Backup
- hardware
- Dns
About Company
Professional Nordic recruitment specialists focused on connecting candidates from Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark with businesses from all over the world.
