Additional Information
Position Overview:
The Trading Infrastructure Support Engineer will be part of a highly talented team of support engineers responsible for ensuring high availability of Squarepoint's mission critical services such Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Build & Deploy, Research and Trading. The candidate will be responsible for providing L1/L2 support across all services globally distributed across APAC, EMEA and AMER regions.
Provide monitoring and L1/L2 support across all services and quickly react to any outages to maintain a highly available environment
Quickly identify, analyze and correct alerts & issues and/or escalate to minimize trade flow impact and preempt outages
Intensive interaction with trading community, external vendors, development and infrastructure teams
Oversee automated processes, scheduled jobs and regular reports
Manage users' requests: track requests, review approvals, updates, resolution, closure, etc.
Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation, collaboration with internal and external teams.
Required Qualifications:
4+ years of support experience a must
Experience in Linux/Unix administration (RHEL/CentOS/OEL preferred)
Proficiency in Python, Bash scripting
Good working knowledge of storage and different storage protocols (nfs gpfs a plus)
Experience with Infrastructure automation (Chef, Puppet or Ansible)
Experience with Kafka or like messaging buses
Experience with CICD tooling
Experience with Monitoring infrastructure (ELK and Prometheus preferred)
Database administration experience (MySql or PosgreSql preferred)
Experience in container software administration (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, GKE or Helm preferred)
Working knowledge with TCP/IP, multicast, tcpdump, clocking (PTP, NTP)
Ability to navigate network equipment command line
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject.