What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Systems Engineer (Linux) position at DV Trading?
Job Description
Job Description
About Us :
Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 450 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.
Overview :
Join our forward-thinking team as a Linux Engineer with a strong foundation in Python, where you will play a pivotal role in automating and optimizing our Linux server infrastructure. We are seeking a talented engineer skilled in the art of integration who understands the Agile mindset and DevOps philosophies yet is not constrained by how "things are usually done" and is willing to decompose and reinvent systems, processes, and tools.
In this role, you will leverage cutting-edge automation and self-service tools to ensure our servers are not only stable and reliable but also scalable to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving industry.
Responsibilities
- Use state-of-the-art tools and methods to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues on enterprise Linux systems, ensuring the stability and functionality of our key trading and development systems
- Enhance and support configuration management code and automated processes
- Improve and support existing programs and processes that provision bare-metal servers, transforming them from a blank-slate to fully functioning Linux trading and development platforms
- Consistently communicate status updates, ideas, and strategies with peers and stakeholders through various channels
- Leverage data to inform strategies and decision-making
- 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.
- Lead our charge to intelligent automation
- Raising the bar on performance through hardware and OS tuning
- Developing tooling to automate tasks and implement / scale / test infrastructure services
- Building and maintaining systems following infrastructure-as-code principles
Requirements
Benefits :
Annual compensation range : $210,000 - $250,000 Discretionary Bonus
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Salary : $210,000 - $250,000
