Job Description

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Infrastructure Engineer to manage and maintain our cloud-based systematic trading infrastructure and build tools to enable and accelerate research. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development tools, production management and cloud tooling in a systematic trading environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, manage and maintain our production, research and trading infrastructure across multiple cloud regions
• Optimize our low-latency systematic trading compute and network infrastructure
• Support large research computing and modeling workloads with resilient, auto-scaling clusters and efficient hardware utilization
• Troubleshoot and resolve any technical issues that arise, including server downtime, network connectivity problems, and cloud outages
• Monitor system performance, and proactively identify and address any performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, or other issues that could impact trading operations
• Work collaboratively with quantitative researchers, traders, developers, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure that the trading and research infrastructure meets their requirements

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as an Infrastructure Engineer or similar role in a fast-paced environment, ideally buy-side systematic trading
• Production experience with cloud technologies, ideally AWS. Certifications alone are not enough.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, including large auto-scaling clusters, and highly available services, as well as knowledge of related GitOps tools such as FluxCD or ArgoCD
• Hands-on production experience with Linux, including knowledge of installations, configurations, and troubleshooting
• Religious about IaC, mastery of Terraform is required. Must have a passion for automation, and experience with relevant tools, such as Ansible.
• Practical working knowledge of UDP, TCP/IP, routing protocols, VPN technologies, user-space kernel bypass networking. Ability to dive deep and understand the full network stack.
• Experience with monitoring frameworks, such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Self-starter with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to travel periodically between our offices in London, NYC, and Zug, Switzerland

Are you keen to work in a well-resourced startup environment, where your ideas, experience, and drive to find creative solutions makes a difference? We’d like to hear from you.

The base salary for this role is anticipated to be between $125,000 and $200,000. This anticipated base salary range is based on information as of the time this post was created. This role may also be eligible for additional forms of compensation and benefits, such as a discretionary bonus, health, dental and other benefits plans. Actual compensation will be carefully determined based on a number of candidate factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.