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