Job Description:System Engineer - New York, Chicago or Austin, USA - Generous salary and benefits package offered Hybrid Working An exciting and brand-new opportunity for experienced System Engineers to join an innovative and growing trading house as they expand their teams in New York, Chicago and Austin. Using HPC solutions they are providing cutting edge services to their customers and are growing in every department to meet the customer demand for their products. This role will see you working within the system team, building and maintaining a large and growing distributed compute cluster, automation software and operating systems amongst other requirements. You'll be working on projects that have a direct impact on the company's live trading and research platforms. In addition to their flexible salary, my client also offer a digressionary signing bonus, quarterly bonuses amongst other benefits - they truly look after their employees. During a normal day as a System Engineer, your tasks may include: scaling their HPC environment, designing/building new services, hardware/software installation and scripting to automate repetitive tasks. There's a lot to get stuck into! You are likely to already have the following skills:
- Expertise in installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux systems
- Solid experience of supporting High Performance Computing (HPC)/supercomputer solutions
- Experience with financial trading systems (high frequency systems, algorithmic trading systems etc).
- Comfortable using Linux/UNIX command line tools
- Python or Shell scripting experience
- Experience and knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is a plus
If you're a trading systems specialist with skills in Linux and HPC then this could prove to be a fantastic career move for you - for more details and an immediate telephone interview please apply today. NB: If you are currently employed in the trading sector and have a non-compete clause with your employer this should not prevent you from applying as this employer will cover that period for you too.