Systems Engineer

Location: New York NY 10004 or Chicago IL 60605

Salary Range: $105000 $120000

THE OPPORTUNITY

Group One Trading LLC is looking to hire a fulltime Systems Engineer to help manage and support all aspects of our firms server infrastructure. In addition youll have the opportunity to directly impact the servers and technologies that make up our complex distributed system by working collaboratively with our systems team and our broader technology group.

WHO WE ARE

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Group One we value transparency and collaboration coming from unique perspectives and backgrounds. We hire bright analytical and competitive people and train them to be the best in the industry. We strive to create a workplace in which all employees have an opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business. A healthy worklife balance is essential to sustaining our work culture and our overall success. We rely on our employees to spur creativity enhance problemsolving and help us thrive in the highpressure trading industry.

WHAT WE DO

Group One Trading LLC was founded in San Francisco in 1989 and weve become one of the largest privately held options trading firms in the United States with brilliant people on our team in New York Chicago Philadelphia and San Francisco. We continue to expand our presence on exchanges as the options trading space evolves and grows. Armed with expertise developed through a rigorous training program our traders provide competitive liquidity across a broad range of securities. We manage portfolios of thousands of securities and electronically stream twosided quotes across multiple exchanges. Group One is wholly owned by its founders and employees and all our trading is proprietary placing both the rewards for our success and managerial oversight directly in our teams hands.

THE CHALLENGE

Our proprietary trading platform consists of an informationdense user interface on top of a highthroughput distributed architecture with interfaces to multiple electronic marketplaces for market data and trading. The electronic trading landscape is constantly evolving and to continue enhancing our proprietary trading platform we need talented technologists to help us iterate and innovate our infrastructure. Our system is proprietary large and multiplatform so regardless of your current experience there will be a lot of learning involved in this position as a Systems Engineer.

THE SKILLSET

A broad multiplatform skill set is what we look for but there will be plenty of learning opportunities no matter how many of these skills you bring in with you. We also encourage applicants with nontraditional backgrounds to apply. Our ideal System Engineer is:

Proficient with:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience working in a similar technical role

• Serverclass operating systems
• GNU/Linux operating systems preferably Ubuntubased distributions
• Windows Server technology
• Cloud hosting providers ideally Microsoft Azure
• Scripting languages like PowerShell Python or similar
• Infrastructure as code tools like Terraform
• Configuration management tools ideally in a mixedplatform environment like Puppet Ansible or Salt
• Monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus
• Gitbased version control systems and tools like Bitbucket GitLab or GitHub
• DevOps philosophies practices and tools

Strong analytical quantitative and problemsolving skills are required. Experience with Elastic Stack Splunk or similar centralized log management tools as well as container technologies like Docker would be a plus! Microsoft Azure certifications are valued but not necessarily required. Do you have an infrastructure as code mindset Are you selfmotivated and detailoriented Do you have excellent communication skills both written and verbal Are you serviceoriented and willing to help with troubleshooting problems Do you take ownership of your projects and tasks If yes you might just be perfect for this Systems Engineer position!

WHAT TO EXPECT AS A SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Within 1 month you complete your initial orientation as well as become familiar with our environment our infrastructure and our business. You begin a comprehensive crossfunctional training plan to learn more about every aspect of our firm. Working alongside your teammates on the Systems team you learn their different roles and skillsets to discern and utilize the best advice and information for yourself and others.

Within 3 months you begin to understand and provide insight into our existing technical initiatives on the systems team roadmap. You engage collaboratively in implementing production changes for our server infrastructure and operating system configuration. After building up experience you contribute directly to existing projects where your skills are most relevant.

Within 6 months you take ownership of technical initiatives from the Systems team roadmap such as refactoring existing infrastructure heading up tool improvement projects or implementing new infrastructure. You help create and improve aspects of our CI/CD pipeline to manage our fleet of physical and virtual servers. Working in collaboration with other technology teams such as application support and software development you effectively handle escalations for production and nonproduction issues.

This is a hybrid role that requires part time inoffice presence to work directly with our technology team inperson.

THE BENEFITS

Our Systems Engineer earns a competitive salary including a performancebased bonus. We provide fantastic benefits including 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plans with employer matching medical dental vision generous vacation time paid holidays parental leave and flexible spending accounts (FSA) for health care dependent daycare and parking or mass transit expenses.

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you apply today! Please fill out our initial 3minute mobilefriendly application for the Systems Engineer role. We look forward to meeting you!