Trading Infrastructure Support Engineer

Squarepoint Capital

United States

6 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Experienced

Experience required

4 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Bash Shell CentOS Command-Line Interface Continuous Integration General Parallel File Systems Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Networking Hardware Python (Programming Language) MySQL Multicasting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ansible

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Prometheus Server Administration TCP/IP Tcpdump System Availability Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Storage Technologies Information Technology Apache Kafka Puppet Docker

Job description

The Trading Infrastructure Support Engineer will be part of a highly talented team of support engineers responsible for ensuring high availability of Squarepoint’s mission critical services such Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Build & Deploy, Research and Trading. The candidate will be responsible for providing L1/L2 support across all services globally distributed across APAC, EMEA and AMER regions.

Provide monitoring and L1/L2 support across all services and quickly react to any outages to maintain a highly available environment
Quickly identify, analyze and correct alerts & issues and/or escalate to minimize trade flow impact and preempt outages
Intensive interaction with trading community, external vendors, development and infrastructure teams
Oversee automated processes, scheduled jobs and regular reports
Manage users’ requests: track requests, review approvals, updates, resolution, closure, etc.
Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation, collaboration with internal and external teams.

Requirements

4+ years of support experience a must
Experience in Linux/Unix administration (RHEL/CentOS/OEL preferred)
Proficiency in Python, Bash scripting
Good working knowledge of storage and different storage protocols (nfs gpfs a plus)
Experience with Infrastructure automation (Chef, Puppet or Ansible)
Experience with Kafka or like messaging buses
Experience with CICD tooling
Experience with Monitoring infrastructure (ELK and Prometheus preferred)
Database administration experience (MySql or PosgreSql preferred)
Experience in container software administration (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, GKE or Helm preferred)
Working knowledge with TCP/IP, multicast, tcpdump, clocking (PTP, NTP)
Ability to navigate network equipment command line
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject.

Nice to have:

Highly organized, detailed, control oriented, enjoys solving problems and brings in a “take charge” attitude
Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with internal teams, external vendors and service providers
Self-motivated individual that takes initiatives and has an ownership & accountability mindset
Must show the ability to make quick decisions and establish priorities in a multi-tasking & fast-paced environment
Knowledge of ITIL is an advantage.