DevOps Engineer

ROLE

We are looking for an Engineer to architect and deploy a large-scale DevOps solution tailored for a group of systematic trading teams.

RESPONSIBILTIES 

• Design and ensure a consistent environment exists across trading team environments (e.g. OS version, installed packages, mounts, SSH keys, bashrc, etc.)
• Build and maintain external package management and tools (e.g. GCC, anaconda, etc.)
• Design and maintain framework for production deployment. (e.g. GIT tagging and release, rollback, communication of changes, service deployment, tools to start-stop-restart services)
• Production monitoring and alerting of applications and trading platform (e.g. Nagios scripts, resilient alerting, alerting API’s, web dashboards)
• QA deployment
• Design and implement continuous integration frameworks (e.g. Jenkins setup and customization, pre-commit GIT hooks, etc.)
• Backups, data archiving, and data organization of applications, code and logs
• Database administration and configuration (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, etc.)
• Maintain and update the platform, ensuring its stability, robustness, and security
• Design and implement Cluster/Cloud computing infrastructure framework that can be leveraged by every Cubist PM team
• Troubleshoot and resolve any systems related issues and handle the release of code fixes and enhancements

REQUIREMENTS

• Strong familiarity with Linux operating systems
• 3+ years of experience with:
  • Reading and writing code and scripts in Python and Bash
  • Testing automation (e.g. Maven)
  • Build automation (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, Pipelines)
  • Release automation (e.g. GIT)
  • Configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet/Chef)
  • Monitoring, logging, reporting tools (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, ELK, MongoDB, Redis)
  • Managing backups, disaster recovery
  • Database admin, configuration and maintenance (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • Cloud compute deployment (e.g. AWS, Google)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Automation and configuration management using Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
• Ability to resolve problems in a timely, effective, and professional manner
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Big Data capture and analytics pipelines is a plus
• Experience with web server configuration and deployment is a plus
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards