A leading prop trading firm is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to work in a broad technical role as part of their global infrastructure team. You will be solely responsible for maintaining the infrastructure, DevOps stack, trading IT systems, and supporting the end-to-end trading application. This person will also sit with the traders/portfolio managers and provide direct trading application support to the trading team.
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: Up to 150k base + bonus
Visa sponsorship is NOT AVAILABLE
Responsibilities:
- Provide direct trading support to the Chicago traders
- Administration and support of mission critical trading systems and infrastructure in a distributed environment
- Systems administration of Windows and Linux servers and PC's, networking devices and IT hardware
- Work closely with global teams on IT related project and support
- Project work on improving existing systems, processes and automation
- Assisting Traders and Developers with their technical requests
- Liaising with external IT vendors and managing their internal tasks
- Ensure that IT policies and procedures are being monitored and adhered to
Requirements:
- 5+ years Application trading support experience
- IT-related Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years administering a RHEL/Fedora environment with automation experience
- 3+ years supporting Linux servers and Windows PC's
- Broad systems administration experience with key technologies such as: Cisco routers, VMWare, vServer, saltstack, HPE
- Independent problem-solving, self-direction, highly motivated and strong initiative
- Ability to meet commitments and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic fast paced environment
- Experience supporting production trading environment, preferably across multiple data centers
- Strong knowledge of basic networking protocols, TCP/IP, UDP, OSI model Layer 1 - 2 and 3
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong scripting and automation skills. Python preferred
- Knowledge of equity derivatives (preferred)
- Firewall or access control lists experience (preferred)