What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linux Systems & Storage Engineer position at Susquehanna International Group, LLP?
Overview
Susquehanna is looking for a Linux Systems & Storage Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure team in Sydney. This role is a varied one that will leverage your in-depth knowledge of Linux and all things storage & software to maintain and optimise our systems. This role will provide a positive and enthusiastic candidate the opportunity to work with a wide range of technologies, including provisioning, configuration management, virtualisation, storage, networking and more. This role requires some, but rare, after hours and on call work. To find out more about what it’s like to work at Susquehanna, visit A Day in the Life Of a Technologist.
What you’ll do
- Supporting and optimising our APAC Linux estate; the continuous improvement of our tools and pipelines to ensure that our systems scale as the company grows
- Gaining in-depth knowledge and hands on experience of hardware and software configuration applicable to the trading space
- Perform resolution and root cause analysis of storage-related issues in collaboration with other teams
- Design, deploy and perform capacity management of NAS and SAN devices in Susquehanna’s enterprise environment
- Working with/implementing/supporting tooling/systems such as Puppet, Ansible, Openstack, Airflow, File sync protocols, VMWare and a suite of monitoring/logging/reporting tools
- Support and administer our storage and backup network infrastructure (Various SAN, NAS, DAS technologies such as NetAPP, Pure, GPFS & Vast)
- Major projects in the region such as rolling out new trading platforms, deploying new solutions as required by the business and automating/enhancing what we already have in place (iterate and improve!)
What you can expect from us
Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.
Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Infrastructure, Project Management and Strategy Developer Teams to deliver and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region and globally.
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 : Link
What we’re looking for
- A Linux engineer who knows network storage like they know servers, a collaborator who puts their team first and loves brainstorming ideas as much as they love deploying great systems and understanding how things work
- Solid experience administering and working with Linux and/or storage systems and associated tooling
- Knowledge of Storage Software/Hardware is essential, understanding of Data Centres/trading systems is an advantage
- Solid experience of working with and improving data and storage pipelines
- Demonstrable skills with programming/scripting in Bash, Python or any other languages
- Automation focused with a proven track record of designing/delivering end to end systems and solutions with storage/data at scale
Equal Opportunity Statement
We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.
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 specialised, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.
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