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# Trading Infrastructure Support Engineer

- **Company:** Squarepoint Capital
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Prometheus, Server Administration, TCP/IP, Tcpdump, System Availability, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Storage Technologies, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Puppet, Docker
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/44a823ef-049d-49d4-8221-f757e969301d

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.


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