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About the Role
We are looking for a Systems Engineer to be responsible for Akuna’s Linux server platform health. This person will participate in the design, deployment, and maintenance of our high-performance platform to support our trading environment. They will also automate daily software and hardware tasks while writing and maintaining scripts and tools. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, proactive, and able to take ownership of projects and problems with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities
- Investigate new products and techniques to improve efficiency and performance in the environment
- Management of Akuna’s server infrastructure at third party and local data centres
- System analysis, monitoring, and performance tuning
- Additional support as required
Requirements
- 4-6 years of systems engineering experience
- Advanced experience with a variety of Linux distributions (RedHat, Ubuntu ,etc.)
- Experience in managing and running services within K8s clusters
- Experience in automation of daily software and hardware related tasks
- Experience with build and configuration management tools (Ansible/Rundeck, Puppet, Foreman)
- Experience with system monitoring and alerting tools (Icinga/Nagios, Prometheus, Alertmanager)
- Experience in virtualization and orchestration platforms like VMware, Kubernetes and Terraform
- Experience in supporting a variety of storage platforms/protocols
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling
- Linux kernel and low latency performance tuning
- Knowledge of database systems, including PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Experience in troubleshooting multicast and TCP related performance issues
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot issues
- Good English communication skills
Skills
- Python scripting
- Bash scripting
Location
- Chicago
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4-6 years
Education Level
- STEM degree (Bachelors, Masters or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related field
About the Company
- Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation.
- We specialise in providing liquidity as an options market maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell.
- To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models.
- At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.
- Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney.
- They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago.
- Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore and London.