Job Summary:
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm focused on collaboration and cutting-edge technology. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will build a best-in-class trading infrastructure, tackle complex technical challenges, and optimize high-performance global trading environments.
Responsibilities:
• 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
Qualifications:
Required:
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 5-7 years of systems engineering experience
• Advanced Linux knowledge including, but not limited to, kernel bypass, kernel tuning, and customizing kernels
• 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
• Working knowledge of database systems, including PostgreSQL and MySQL
• The ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions, including the ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems
Preferred:
• trading industry experience a strong plus
• Familiarity with Windows environments is a plus
• Experience working with SOAP and REST APIs a plus
Company:
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in derivatives market-making. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.