About Us:
Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 450 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.
Overview:
Join our forward-thinking team as a Senior Linux Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in automating and optimizing our Linux server infrastructure. We are seeking a talented engineer skilled in the art of integration who understands the Agile mindset and DevOps philosophies yet is not constrained by how "things are usually done" and is willing to decompose and reinvent systems, processes, and tools.
In this role, you will leverage cutting-edge automation and self-service tools to ensure our servers are not only stable and reliable but also scalable to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving industry.
Responsibilities
- Use state-of-the-art tools and methods to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues on enterprise Linux systems, ensuring the stability and functionality of our key trading and development systems
- Enhance and support configuration management code and automated processes
- Improve and support existing programs and processes that provision bare-metal servers, transforming them from a blank-slate to fully functioning Linux trading and development platforms
- Consistently communicate status updates, ideas, and strategies with peers and stakeholders through various channels
- Leverage data to inform strategies and decision-making
- You will be expected to help build the pioneering tools to keep our systems best-in-class while enabling our technology evolution in a controlled way.
- Lead our charge to intelligent automation
- Raising the bar on performance through hardware and OS tuning
- Developing tooling to automate tasks and implement/scale/test infrastructure services
- Building and maintaining systems following infrastructure-as-code principles
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering or similar field of study
- 5+ years of experience in Linux engineering, debugging, administration, and OS system provisioning (PXE/DHCP/TFTP/Grub)
- Extensive experience with configuration management at scale
- Experience in Docker image building, modification, and publishing
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (git), branching and merging best practices
- Proficiency in a range of system/network tools and services including EBPF, tcpdump, strace, nmcli (Network Manager), systemd, ntp/ptp, lsof, nc, nmap and NFS/S3 storage
- Proficiency with networking fundamentals including DNS, TCP/UDP/multicast etc.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Alert Manager and PagerDuty
- Deep understanding of Linux and its network stack
- Ability to manage and implement large-scale infrastructure projects.
- You are naturally curious about hardware and software, and how these interact
- A systematic approach to problem solving
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to solve and explain complex technical problems
- Deep experience in performing system performance analysis and tuning
- Experience in use of virtualization/VMWare for compute infrastructure
Benefits:
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs
Annual compensation range: $200,000 - $250,000 + Discretionary Bonus
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What We Do
Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 350+ people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.
We invest in exceptional individuals and empower them to realize their goals and make a lasting positive impact on our organization. Engaging a diverse group of talented people from different cultural, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds helps provide us with a competitive advantage that drives our success.
