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Senior Systems Architect
Job Location:
Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
24 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
21 August 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
TXSE is building the next-generation exchange infrastructure to support transparent efficient and resilient capital markets. With SEC approval and $270MM in funding we arecurrently hiring a Senior Systems Architect to help with a greenfield infrastructure build out.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Architecture & Engineering: Design implement and evolve highly available
infrastructure platforms that support mission-critical trading market data and financial
services workloads across on-premises and cloud environments. - OpenShift & Kubernetes: Architect deploy and maintain resilient Red Hat OpenShift
and Kubernetes platforms for low-latency high-throughput production environments. - Linux Engineering: Provide senior-level engineering leadership for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) systems including kernel tuning performance optimization patching
strategy lifecycle management and operational standards. - Market-Critical Infrastructure Services: Engineer and support core infrastructure
services essential to distributed financial systems including LDAP Kerberos SSSD
DNS BIND PowerDNS NTP Chrony and PTP with a focus on precision availability
and operational integrity. - Cloud & Hybrid Architecture: Design and operate secure AWS and Azure solutions
including hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that satisfy financial industry requirements
for resilience auditability security and business continuity. - Enterprise Hardware & Storage: Lead the design support and optimization of
infrastructure running on Dell PowerEdge servers and enterprise storage platforms with
emphasis on performance replication capacity planning and fault tolerance. - Automation & Platform Reliability: Develop and standardize infrastructure automation
using Ansible Jenkins ArgoCD GitOps Terraform Pulumi and scripting frameworks
to improve repeatability speed and operational consistency. - Developer & Release Platform Integration: Manage GitHub Enterprise and related
integrations including SonarQube Artifactory and GitHub Actions runners to enable
secure and scalable software delivery workflows. - Operational Resilience & Compliance: Ensure platforms are designed and operated to
meet the security availability resiliency and regulatory expectations of financial
services and capital markets environments. - Architecture Leadership: Establish design standards reference architectures and
reusable engineering patterns that can be deployed consistently across multiple business
and technology domains. - Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with trading application
development production support cybersecurity network engineering and infrastructure
teams to deliver stable performant and scalable solutions aligned with front-office and
enterprise priorities.
Qualifications
- 10 years of experience in Linux infrastructure engineering systems engineering or
platform architecture roles. - 5 years of hands-on experience designing and supporting Red Hat OpenShift and/or
Kubernetes in production. - Strong experience supporting infrastructure in New York financial markets including
trading environments market data platforms exchange connectivity or other latency-
sensitive capital markets systems. - Deep understanding of the operational demands of financial services environments
including high availability change control resiliency audit and regulatory
considerations. - Proven expertise in RHEL engineering systems performance tuning and production
platform design. - Strong background in building standardized reusable architecture patterns with a design
once use many approach. - Demonstrated experience with AWS and Azure including secure networking storage
integration identity controls and hybrid deployment models. - Advanced knowledge of enterprise compute and storage infrastructure including Dell
PowerEdge servers and Dell EMC storage platforms. - In-depth knowledge of authentication DNS and time synchronization services in
distributed performance-sensitive environments. - Strong proficiency in infrastructure automation and scripting using tools such as Ansible
Terraform Pulumi Bash and Python. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage
effectively with engineering teams operations teams application owners and business
leadership.
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting infrastructure for equities options futures fixed income or other
capital markets trading platforms. - Familiarity with low-latency infrastructure design market hours operational support and
production change controls in front-office environments. - Experience designing platforms that support regulatory surveillance disaster recovery
and operational resiliency requirements in financial markets. - Background leading engineering standards architectural reviews and platform
modernization initiatives.
$200000 - $300000 a year
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
A national securities exchange is coming to Texas. Learn more about the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) and our long-term vision for achieving greater alignment for issuers and investors and bringing innovation and competition to the U.S. equity markets.
