Linux Administrators work with our in-house trading systems and critical infrastructure. Our mix of custom-designed and open source systems allow you to dive to the real source of a problem without having to play guessing games with a vendor. Members of this group are hard-working systems engineers, administrators and programmers, tasked with maintaining, improving, and sometimes transforming our core technology infrastructure. We try to automate much of our work, and not because we are lazy. Deployment automation, centralization of management, and obsessive monitoring are the focus of many of our ongoing projects. We find that automation reduces our error rate and overall workload - plus, we think it’s fun

You will be involved with monitoring and supporting the technical and operational stability of the firm’s proprietary trading systems. Carrying out trade-support duties by working directly with the trading desks, technology departments and back-office departments to understand and react to issues as they arise during the trading day. The ability to identify and direct accurate and timely information to the firm’s trading desks is of the utmost importance during the resolution of an issue. This requirement is achieved by trade-support with the use of the applications maintained and developed within the group. 

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Ability to efficiently analyze and deconstruct technical problems
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
  • Technical strength in networking, programming or system administration
  • Solid foundation in computer science and networking principles
  • Ability to write clear code in at least one general-purpose programming language like Ruby, Python, C, OCaml, or Haskell.
  • Ability to understand code in other languages. Experience with OCaml or another functional language is not required 
  • In-depth knowledge of and experience with multiple Linux distributions
  • Demonstrated programming experience in the form of open source contributions or shared code samples
  • No previous experience in finance required