Data Center Operations Engineer | Experienced Hire
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
Overview
Become a key player in ourMid-Central Datacenter Servicesteam where innovation meets critical infrastructure. Youll support and manage data center technologies across multiple locations inthe Chicago Illinois area ensuring rapid response to technical issues and deployments in our fast-paced trading environment.
Gain hands-on experience with a wide range of technologies including:
- Networking and telecommunications
- Server hardware and software
- Storage hardware and infrastructure
- Tools for managing complex IT environments
- Security systems
Location & Schedule
This role is based inthe Chicago Metropolitan Area and involves local travel to our data centers and colocation facilities throughout the region. Since most support activities occurafter trading hours (post 4:30 PM EST) a flexible schedule is essential.
How Youll Learn
At Susquehanna we believe in learning by doing. From day one youll receive hands-on experience guided by a supportive team. During your initial months in the role your team lead will help you build a personalized development plan focused on:
- Understanding your teams responsibilities
- Operating within a critical Datacenter
- Navigating our technical environment
- Building strong working relationships
What you can expect from us:
Real Impact: Youll be designing and optimizing systems that process massive amounts of data ensuring high performance and stability. Youll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software solutions make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter faster and better.
Collaboration: Our systems engineers network architects technical analysts and software developers work together to create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions.
Growth: For many of our roles we dont expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. Were looking for people who are naturally curious relentless problem solvers and have the desire to continuously innovate learn and grow.
Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits.
What were looking for
- Strong understanding of technology fundamentals in a critical infrastructure environment
- Experience with server and/or networking installations implementations and/or deployments required
- Knowledge of structured cable environments for high-capacity large scale compute environments
- 1 yearsin technical field support systems administration or data center operations
- Solid knowledge ofWindows and networking; basicLinux/Unixskills a plus
- Experience withserver/network installations and deployments
- Validdrivers licensefor local travel
- Ability tolift/move up to 65 pounds
- Understanding of critical IT facilities infrastructure (power cooling)
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading Technology and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.
What we do
We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad our trading desks are highly specialized allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.