Senior System Engineer

Location
Professions
It
Contract Type
permanent - company
Published
Reference
1941
This position is archived.
Job description

The Company is a leading investment firm. You'll find us headquartered in the historic Chicago Board of Trade building. They use technology to find a better way of doing things. The company’s first tech-based solution was developed in 1997 to optimize options trading, and over the past two decades, the same formula has been used across a range of industries, asset classes, and business stages to deliver superior results consistently. Today, they seek transformational opportunities to provide capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs and forward-thinking businesses. Core brands include Campany Capital Management, Strategic Capital, Apex Fintech Solutions, InsurTech, Evil Geniuses, Poker Power, and Zogo.

About this role:

As a member of our Infrastructure team at Capital Management, you’ll greatly impact the firm. You’ll work within our proprietary trading entity and have

genuine opportunities to lead projects to optimise dev teams and deploy their

applications. We encourage our teams to explore, learn, and implement new

technologies. This role is for someone who flourishes in a fast-paced environment,

takes responsibility for overall systems architecture, and has a solid understanding of

designing, deploying, and supporting Linux for end users. This role will report to the

Engineering Manager.


What you'll do all day:


  • Optimizing system performance and stability on critical Linux trading systems
  • Monitoring, maintaining, and supporting a variety of underlying infrastructure
  • Systems such as Kubernetes (K8s), open-source virtualization solutions (Proxmox), and Saltstack
  • Writing and maintaining Python, Shell, and other scripts that automate tech operations
  • Working closely with software development teams to operationalize new applications
  • Administration of various STaaS infrastructures.
  • Research and implement new systems that improve the way the company applications run
  • Maintain and monitor a server environment of 300+ physical servers and 700+ virtual machines, SAN storage, and other associated hardware components


We're looking for someone who has:


  • B.S. or equivalent degree
  • 5+ years’ experience working with Debian/Ubuntu distributions preferred.
  • Familiarity with other Linux distributions is a plus.
  • Experience programming and scripting in Python and Shell
  • Experience with virtualisation technologies
  • Deep knowledge of container orchestration technologies, Kubernetes (K8s), CNI, and Istio.
  • Linux performance troubleshooting experience
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Salt)
  • Experience with data virtualisation and monitoring technologies
  • Knowledge of or administration experience with Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, MetalLB, and/or Ceph would be a bonus.


Benefits:


  • They offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare

benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, and parental leave.

  • They also provide their employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits.
  • As a hybrid workforce, they offer their employees the ability to work remotely two days a week.
  • The company is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
This position is archived.