Senior System Engineer
One of our leading trading firms have an exciting opportunity open for a Senior Linux Systems Engineer based out in Chicago. In this role you will be designing, building and leading innovative IT projects in an environment where you can be creative and pragmatic at the same time.
Their Linux Team ensures their trading servers work so they can trade. You will work in a highly-customized environment where proprietary tools and technology run.
You will be expected to help build the pioneering tools to keep our systems best-in-class while enabling our technology evolution in a controlled way.
What you’ll do:
- Tackle the life cycle of a server and build and deploy new solutions
- Upgrade, maintain and execute changes to the UNIX servers
- Performance monitoring and managing the system capacity
- Fix and analyse technical incidents, solve technical ad hoc problems
- Lead the charge to intelligent automation
- Be the connection between hardware and software
- Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better
What you’ll need to be successful:
- A Linux Admin meets SRE/Programming mindset to help build the right tools for continual improvement
- Experience within a high-performance computer environment where the result matters
- Focus on automating and solid Python skills
- Infrastructure-as-Code with an Ansible flavor