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Akuna Capital is a leading proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. We are looking for a versatile and driven Systems Engineer to join our Engineering team in building a best-in-class trading infrastructure. In this role, you'll tackle complex, large-scale technical challenges and play a key role in the architecture and design of low latency platforms, building automated deployments and tooling, and optimizing and maintaining of our high-performance global trading environment.
Job Responsibility:
Analyze complex technical problems and collaborate on designing solutions for Akuna's global Infrastructure platform
Drive projects and solutions to completion in a fast-paced environment
Design, develop and maintain orchestration and configuration solutions
Collaborate with developers and other infrastructure engineers to research new products and techniques that drive innovation and improve efficiency and performance in the environment
Architect and maintain multi-vendor, tier-based storage solutions
Build out a test automation framework for systems performance testing and tuning
Create and institute process enforcement across environments
Create tools that assist teams to optimize the available infrastructure
Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides
Lead knowledge transfer sessions and mentor team members to ensure continuity and operational excellence
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize system performance, security, and reliability
Requirements:
Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
3+ years of systems engineering experience
Deep understanding of virtualization and containerization technologies
Extensive experience with a variety of Linux distributions (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc.)
Deep understanding of system monitoring and configuration management tools (Ansible, Foreman, Prometheus and Icinga/Nagios)
Proficiency in scripting and using automation and orchestration tools such as Python and Bash
Expertise in troubleshooting multicast and TCP related performance issues
Experience automating daily software and hardware related tasks
Demonstrated ability to lead large technical projects
Experience with automating infrastructure builds, such as Preseed, NetBoot, Anaconda, Kickstart and Ansible customization
Familiarity with git or a similar version control tool