Associate Site Reliability Engineer | Platform Services | Experienced Hire

Overview

Susquehanna International Group is seeking a talented Associate Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Services team which is responsible for building and managing all 15,000 servers and 250 PB of storage that composes our critical trade focused infrastructure. You’ll work alongside technologists across Susquehanna’s environment to troubleshoot application, network, hardware issues.

In this role, you will:

• As part of the team, you will be able to rotate with senior engineers specializing in Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Storage, and open-source technologies. During these rotations, you will partner with engineers to learn the fundamentals of their spaces and help them solve complex problems from building out new environments, evaluating and creating new applications, performance tuning, automation, and configuration management.
• In each rotation you will be paired with one or more mentors that will guide you through your technical growth and Susquehanna’s environment. In addition to dealing with day-to-day project work, together you will pinpoint your areas of interest and avenues for growth. You will also work closely with the rest of our teams through design/white board sessions, problem solving discussions, and ongoing project and team updates.
• Susquehanna is always looking at the latest technology to see where we can increase speed and performance for competitive advantage while managing risk and enhancing stability. You will have the freedom to test and implement your solutions at scale in our onsite labs consisting of over 600 physical and virtual servers. You may have the opportunity to help test out new hardware that isn’t generally available (server hardware, network cards, flash storage), work on emerging platforms geared toward container orchestration (Kubernetes, Service Fabric), or work on high performance clustered environments responsible for driving our quantitative trading.

What you can expect from us:

Real Impact: You’ll be designing and optimizing systems that process massive amounts of data, ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software solutions make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: Our systems engineers, network architects, technical analysts and software developers work together to create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits such as: an onsite wellness center staffed with a full-time Nurse Practitioner, a 9,000 square-foot gym, food & beverages available all day, onsite services such as dry cleaning & laundry, and auto repair & detailing.

What we’re looking for

• BS in Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering, or a similar technical major.
• Knowledge of computer architecture, OS and network concepts.
• A passion for technology, learning, and finding creative ways to solve hard problems.
• Strong personal initiative and excellent communication skills.
• Experience with any of the following a plus: Python, PowerShell, Bash, Linux, Windows, building computer systems or networks.
• The shift for this role rotates between 7:00am-4:00pm, 9:00am-6:00pm and 11:00am-8:00pm. Applicants must be willing to work these shifts.

About Susquehanna Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together. What we do We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

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