Job Description
Job DescriptionJob Title:Sr Linux Engineer
Job Location: Connecticut
Job Type: Permenant Job Description:
Specifically, you will:
•Work as part of an embedded, hyper-focused team on the engineering and support of the firm’s strategic order management platform globally
•Support low-latency co-location environments and a large on-premises and public cloud environment running RHEL8/9
•Manage, communicate, and implement infrastructure changes, upgrades, new co-location builds, and migrations across low-latency environments
•Automate processes to reduce manual work using enterprise and open-source tools
•Resolve production issues in a timely, effective, and professional manner under pressure
•Perform hands-on analysis of production systems, fault resolution, growth issues, and root cause analysis for critical issues
•Work with vendors to implement solutions for clients, both hardware and software-related What’s required
•Excellent knowledge of tuning Linux for low latency, high throughput, and kernel bypass (e.g., Exanic, Solarflare, Mellanox)
•Experience building co-locations from scratch with in-depth system administration expertise to deliver complete solutions from planning/design to production
•Strong knowledge of low-latency trading environments with hands-on experience of order management systems from an infrastructure perspective
•Experience with automation/orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Terraform)
•Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) with hands-on experience creating tools
•Experience with cloud services and provisioning tools—public (AWS, Azure, GCP) or private (OpenStack, VMware)
•Experience with monitoring and instrumentation of infrastructure/applications (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana)
•Understanding of market data and/or third-party feed handlers running within a low-latency co-location environment
•Familiarity with Active Directory and Kerberos
•Strong troubleshooting, decision-making, and analytical skills to independently solve problems
•Commitment to the highest ethical standards