High Performance Infrastructure Specialist

Job Title: High Performance Infrastructure Specialist

This role requires a highly skilled and experienced infrastructure engineer to maintain, design, and support high-performance systems within a technologically diverse stack used for global research and trading. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in supporting mission-critical infrastructure, experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana, and a passion for new technology.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and troubleshoot trading networks to ensure efficient handling of traditional multicast market data networks as well as handling market data in the cloud for trading environments.
• Optimize and fine-tune the latest hardware, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure to achieve minimal latency in trading and compute operations.
• Drive initiatives to modernize environments by building and optimizing infrastructure using the most appropriate tools and technologies—whether cloud-based or on-premise to best meet the needs of our trading systems.
• Use declarative frameworks like Terraform and Ansible to build, manage, and configure infrastructure such as AWS, Kubernetes, Git, TeamCity, Concourse, and GitHub Actions.
• Research and implement new technologies to enhance network and compute performance, container management, workload orchestration, and cloud integration.
• Support the business by maintaining and managing storage requirements on NFS, CIFS, and S3 compatible systems within a Linux-based environment.
• Ensure systems are secure through regular patching and reporting, maintaining compliance with security standards.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience in supporting mission critical, high performance trading infrastructure across various technology stacks.
• Experience deploying and supporting applications in Kubernetes.
• Previous infrastructure monitoring experience using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Previous experience maintaining and optimizing cloud infrastructure in AWS environments.
• Experience performing database and database infrastructure support for highly available systems.
• Working knowledge of TLS.
• Demonstrated knowledge of network communications experience, including multicast and WebSockets.
• Experience using Ansible and/or Terraform to manage infrastructure.
• Flexibility to take off-hours support calls and meetings as needs dictate.
• Ability to learn quickly; a passion for new technology.
• Self-motivated to continually expand skillset and improve supported systems.
• Demonstrated high level of ownership and accountability.
• Ability to handle pressure and time constraints with composure.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with proven experience collaborating effectively with global teams.
• Strong organizational skills, including planning, prioritization, and documentation.

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