Trading Infrastructure Support Lead (Linux/Python) Manhattan or Montreal CA

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Trading Infrastructure Support Lead (Linux/Python)

Location: Manhattan, NY or Montreal Canada - On-site 4 days a week

Salary: Open and will commensurate on experience.

Must have the following: Linux/Unix administration, global team leadership, trading or mission-critical infrastructure support, CI/CD and automation, networking fundamentals, incident management

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Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a global 24x5 Trading Infrastructure Support team with weekend on-call rotation
• Ensure high availability and performance of mission-critical trading systems and infrastructure
• Define and implement support policies, processes, SLAs, and operational roadmaps
• Partner with engineering and service teams to build automation, self-service tools, and runbooks
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and optimizing workflows
• Lead major incident response and outage recovery efforts with a hands-on approach
• Mentor and develop team members to enhance technical capability and ownership
• Coordinate cross-region technical efforts across APAC, EMEA, and AMER

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on Linux/Unix administration (RHEL, CentOS, or OEL preferred)
• 3+ years of experience leading infrastructure or support teams
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices, including observability, orchestration, and containerization
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Solid networking knowledge (TCP/IP, multicast, tcpdump, PTP, NTP)
• Familiarity with storage protocols such as NFS and GPFS (preferred)
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management experience in high-pressure environments
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• ITIL knowledge is a plus

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Trading infrastructure support, Linux administration, Unix systems, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, networking fundamentals, TCP/IP, multicast, trading systems, incident management, outage recovery, SRE, DevOps, observability, containerization, Kubernetes, production support, financial technology, low latency systems, system reliability, runbooks, monitoring tools, infrastructure engineering, global support teams, SLA management, operational excellence, troubleshooting, platform services, automation tools, infrastructure scalability, cloud infrastructure, hybrid environments