Trading Systems Engineer

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live production environment (especially trading)
• Experience of working with bare metal trading servers in remote datacenter sites including preparing work for remote hands engineers to execute
• Expert in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications
• Significant experience managing and debugging production trading services
• Project Management Skills
• Proven ability to manage assigned projects efficiently, ideally using JIRA
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Proficiency with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – strong knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Programming experience focusing on automation and integration is desirable, but not required. Python is strongly preferred
• Advanced shell (bash) scripting experience

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, manage, automate, and optimize worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by planning and executing complex technical projects and tasks
• Deploy and maintain physical hardware in various remote datacenters, working with networking and datacenter engineer colleagues as well as remote hands teams.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack
• Design and implement system installations and upgrades
• Remain unfazed by production-critical issues, resolving them quickly and efficiently
• Support benchmarking and tuning of the trading stack
• Hold vendors accountable on performance and reliability issues, with the ability to confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's Tier 2 engineering team during an escalation
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable

Perks and Benefits

• Culture that promotes innovation and collaboration
• Diverse team with varied perspectives
• Equal opportunity employer