DevOps Platform Engineer

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities interest rates exchange-traded funds (ETF) and equity index options. From the beginning we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered optimized and maintained to stay on top of the industry. This wouldnt be possible without the dedicated efforts of our technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions.

Our teams focus is to deliver high-quality data solutions to our core and affiliated groups. We strive to understand and support end-user needs who both leverage data for performance analytics and depend on our SQL Server infrastructure backing production trading systems. The data team strives to ensure that properly curated data is in the hands of the people who need it. They deliver the data and tools Belvedere needs to perform complex analytics and make data-driven decisions.

Were looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer to help drive the design and implementation of our ever-growing platform. At the Engineer level you will help shape the direction of our CI/CD platform cloud architecture and DevOps strategy. You will work on providing a cohesive environment to empower other teams to build amazing applications that drive trading. We focus on cloud engineering automating workflows CI/CD and building a platform that makes developers more effective and efficient.

What youll do

Expand and enhance existing CI/CD systems infrastructure as code build job orchestration development environment automation.
Architect and manage large scale Kubernetes workloads.
Own DevOps and cloud engineering solutions from inception to delivery through stakeholder feedback documenting design decisions observability and long-term maintainability.
Partner with internal development teams and regularly communicate with them to help deliver a high-quality platform that is observable and self-service.
Monitor the performance and cost data of (cloud systems pipelines etc) while continuously optimizing with development team partners.
Learn and grow your knowledge of development experience to help other developers and quants be more effective.
Use your unique knowledge base to help other team members make better products and break established assumptions on how things should work.
Take full ownership (design implement test deploy maintain) of your projects.

What youll need

3-5 years of experience
Compiling and deploying software in multiple languages with a focus on C Python and Java
Build automation tooling with a focus on Bazel
Hybrid cloud/on-prem Kubernetes/Helm architecture design build and operations
Google Cloud Platform and associated SaaS/PaaS products
Observability experience using major tools such as OpenTelemetry Grafana Splunk Datadog CloudWatch etc
Linux and networking
Terraform including modularization
DevEx experience delivering bespoke development platforms
Major CI/CD tooling such as GitLab Github ArgoCD or Jenkins
Package management tooling such aspypy conan maven conda etc

Nice to have

Cloud-based data warehousing operations at scale (20 petabyte range) using BigQuery (preferred) or AWS RedShift Azure Synapse or Databricks.
Job orchestration services like Apache Airflow
Advanced Linux skills such as kernel and memory tuning and container optimizations
Streaming data and messaging such as Apache Pulsar or Kafka

$120000 - $170000 a year

Additionally certain positions at Belvedere Trading are eligible for discretionary bonuses. Our employees have access to a variety of benefits which can be found on our website here.

Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.

We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer. We welcome your application.

Core Values

The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values:Team Belvedere Me In Team Own It Build Rockets and Passionate Discourse.We live and breathe these values every day.

Our Stance

Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race color religion sex national origin disability age military and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect dignity and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics values experiences and backgrounds.

Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls please.

Any questions regarding the recruiting process please reach out toemailprotected.

Work Schedule:Regularand reliable attendanceduring standard business hours

Amount of Travel Required:None

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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