We are looking for a passionate Site Reliability Engineer to join our newly formed Engineering team, Chorus in Hong Kong. The team strives to build a fully systematic quantitative fund, and is committed to orchestrate trading, research and infrastructure through clean, maintainable code.

Chorus team is composed of experts with skills ranging from system administration, data science, software engineering, coming from various industries from finance, ad-tech and hardware vendors. They believe in agile methodologies, use Kanban in their day to day work, do retrospectives.

Trust and honesty are among their core values - you advocate for free and open communication where everyone can step up!In this role you will have the opportunity to work on pretty much all aspects of software development for the fund, depending on current business priorities, including:

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Design, deploy and maintain our production and development systems in the cloud, from trading to research to software engineering
  • Write clean and maintainable automation code
  • Ensure our systems are always running with proper monitoring
  • Ensure all operations are repeatable and traceable
  • Support software engineers and quantitative researchers
  • Document your work.
  • Strong Linux experience, know how to optimize performances : preferably under RHEL or CentOS
  • Strong configuration management experience with Puppet
  • Automate systems management with Python and bash scripting
  • Previous experiences with AWS and Terraform are really appreciated
  • Good understanding of networking: IP, TCP, HTTP, DNS, NFS, Syslog, etc.
  • Problem solver : good understanding the Linux kernel and troubleshooting tools (from strace to wireshark)
  • Software engineer culture : agility, versioning, testing, continuous integration, etc.
  • Implement security by design, not as a feature