VP Automation Linux/Systems Engineering

Our client is a Global Financial Services firm located in Chicago. They are seeking a VP Automation Linux/Systems Engineering- Chicago. We are looking to grow our Specialized Electronic Trading Infrastructure Team with a cross-discipline platform tooling specialist looking at Linux Systems, Data, Security and Automation. She or He will work with our partners across technology to find solutions to allow us to grow revenue, manage risk or reduce cost by leveraging existing technologies, onboarding new technologies or building it themselves.

The electronic and algorithmic trading platform is the core infrastructure behind the success of the Equities business and continues to be a primary driver of future growth and success in the industry.

Your responsibility will be to enhance, maintain and develop new tools for both yourself and others to effectively manage the infrastructure platform including our electronic trading lab. The ideal candidate will embrace the challenge of automating away toil freeing up time to challenge new technologies. Our environment allows you to grow your skillset by working with highly talented people. We promote knowledge sharing and you must be willing to participate in many groups

In addition to possessing the technical skills listed below, the ideal candidate must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, globally, write clear and concise technical documentation and be able to verbally communicate ideas and engage in technical discussions and debates with technical management while still maintaining professionalism.

Qualifications

• Skills Required:
• Automation / Tools / Data
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate software code developed in the project.
• Demonstrable scripting experience in Python including extracting and updating data in enterprise data sources and interacting with the networks
• Complex Bash Script and the trade-offs of CLI Scripting versus Python vs a structured language
• Experience working on shared code bases using best practices in CI / Source Control / Release Management and Change Control
• Application and Infrastructure Configuration management
• Automated build / packaging experience - Ansible, RPM, Puppet, Chef, Salt
• Data structures formats (JSON/YAML/XML)
• Efficient interaction with databases such as SQL/Redis/mongo/NoSQL
• Flask / Django for mock-up GUIs for others
• Streaming Data programming Linux Systems
• Strong Experience in Linux Systems. Must be capable of demonstrating high levels of proficiency from the command line
• Understanding of network principles (routing, switching, TCP, DNS, SSL, http)
• Professional:
• Strong sense of ownership/accountability
• Must have the ability to work in our dynamic, fast paced environment
• Demonstrated self-growth outside the office
• Desire to learn and adapt to new technology
• Must be comfortable presenting to global audiences on a regular basis
• Ability to prioritize along with good time management skills
• Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills

QUALIFICATIONS

• Skills Desired (Must be willing to learn):
• Automation / Tools / Data / Integration
• Other languages like (Golang, rust, Java) or other high-level programming / scripting tooling
• Streaming Data programming such as Kafka/ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ or NIFI
• Service Now Ecosystem
• AWS/GCP, Terraform etc. automated provisioning tool chains
• OCI Container and Execution Frameworks (Docker, Podman)
• K8S (OpenShift, Rancher etc.)
• Jupyter Lab for analytics, including standard libraries like NumPy/panda/matplotlib)
• Knowledge of Intermediate (No) SQL Skills
• Trading System Application Configuration / Deployment / Management Experience
• Systems
• Familiarity with MIT Kerberos application within enterprise Linux environments
• Iptables principles and practices
• Detailed experience working with Unicast and Multicast network protocols and routing metro and regional FC networks.
• Kernel-Bypass
• Time synchronization methods and appliances
• Automated OOB Management - Redfish
• NICs - Solarflare, Mellanox, ExaBlaze ExaNIC adapters
• Security / Networks
• Firewalls - Fortinet firewall management
• Zeek/ Corvil network analytics package
• Professional -
• GitHub / Open-source contributions a bonus
• Excellent problem-solving skills, soft-skills sense of humor, and delivery mindset
• A deep understanding of DevOps practices and tools
• Ability to drive the design, engineering, integration, and enhancement of Agile and IaC enablement tools and applications by utilizing DevOps practices
• Implement software development processes and practices (e.g., Functional Specification and Testing, Code reviews, Unit Testing, and Monitoring)