Senior Linux Engineer | Quant firm | Chicago/NYC

My client, a leading trading firm is hiring a Senior Linux Engineer to help shape the infrastructure supporting its trading and development teams. You’ll join an established engineering team responsible for a substantial Linux estate, with ownership across performance, reliability and how systems are deployed and managed.

• Extensive Linux engineering experience across large-scale, highly available server environments. \n

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet. \n

• Proficiency in Python, Bash or another language for automation and systems tooling. \n

• Experience diagnosing Linux performance issues across CPU, memory, storage and networking. \n

• Experience with repeatable server provisioning, software packaging, repository management and monitoring. \n

• Solid understanding of networking, routing, multicast and core infrastructure services \n

• Background supporting latency-sensitive workloads in a trading environment \n

• Familiarity with virtualization, private cloud or container platforms would be useful. \n

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys getting deep into Linux performance tuning, solving difficult trading infrastructure problems and finding better ways to automate and operate systems at scale.

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The role can be based out of their Chicago or New York office with highly competitive compensation for strong candidates.

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