Desired Skills and Experience

  • Investigate new products and techniques to improve efficiency and performance in the environment
  • Responsible for architecture and maintenance of a tier-based storage solution
  • Responsible for management and maintenance of trading system messaging middleware
  • Management of Akuna’s server infrastructure at third party and local data centers
  • Additional day-to-day responsibilities include system analysis, monitoring, and performance tuning, as well as developer workstation support
  • Degree in Computer Science or related experience
  • Linux kernel tuning experience in a low latency environment
  • Experience in automation of daily software and hardware related tasks
  • Advanced experience with a variety of Linux distributions (RedHat, Ubuntu ,etc.)
  • Ability to script in common languages (Python, Bash)
  • Knowledge of database systems, including MySQL and PostgresSQL
  • Experience with system monitoring and configuration management tools (Ansible, Cobbler, Salt, and Icinga/Nagios)
  • Knowledge of L1-L4 layers of the OSI model
  • Experience in troubleshooting multicast and TCP related performance issues