Senior Linux Engineer
Senior Linux Engineer
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Job Description
Join our forwardthinking team as a Linux Engineer with a strong foundation in Python where you will play a pivotal role in automating and optimizing our Linux server infrastructure. At IMC the Linux Engineering team is at the heart of our operations managing the provisioning configuration and ongoing performance of an extensive and missioncritical Linux server fleet. In this role you will leverage cuttingedge automation and selfservice tools to ensure our servers are not only stable and reliable but also scalable to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving industry. Your innovative approach and commitment to continuous improvement will help drive us to remain leaders in the field integrating the latest technologies and methodologies to maintain our competitive edge.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Use stateoftheart tools and methods to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues on enterprise Linux systems ensuring the stability and functionality of our key trading and development systems
- Enhance and support configuration management code and automated processes that operate on 7500 critical Linux systems in a near 24/7 HighFrequency Trading (HFT) Ultra Low Latency environment
- Apply your Python expertise to design develop and support processes that manage and maintain critical Linux systems at scale in a diverse and technically complex environment
- Improve and support existing programs and processesthat provision baremetal servers transforming them from a blankslate to fully functioning Linux trading and development platforms
- Support and enhance our metrics and log collection infrastructure as well as our core monitoring and alerting tools ensuring robust system visibility
- Consistently communicate status updates ideas and strategies with peers and stakeholders through various channels including chats facetoface interactions issue tracking tickets clear commit messages and welldocumented merge requests
Your Skills and Experience:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering or similar field of study
- 5 years of experience in Linux engineering debugging administration and OS system provisioning (PXE/DHCP/TFTP/Grub)
- Extensive experience with configuration management at scale preferably with Puppet and Hiera
- Experience in Docker image building modification and publishing
- Handson experience with Kubernetes
- Advanced skills in Python for automation API programming design unit testing and debugging
- Proven experience in designing Ansible tasks and playbooks as well as utilizing Ansible Tower
- Expertise in RPM design build publishing and repository management
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines version control systems (git) branching and merging best practices
- Proficiency in a range of system/network tools and services including EBPF tcpdump strace nmcli (Network Manager) systemd ntp/ptp lsof nc nmap and NFS/S3 storage
- Proficiency with networking fundamentals including DNS TCP/UDP/multicast etc.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana Alert Manager Alerta and OpsGenie
About Us
IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cuttingedge research environment and a worldclass technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe and Asia Pacific our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative highperformance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
