Linux Systems Engineer – Chicago
Our client, an industry leading proprietary trading firm and market maker, is looking for a Linux Systems Engineer to join their expanding Linux Systems Engineering Team in Chicago. The firm enforces a highly collaborative environment and uses innovative and sophisticated proprietary tools and technologies to edge their competition.
As a Linux Systems Engineer you will be working in a bare-metal environment and helping to build pioneering tools to maintain the firms industry leading status. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the production environment by designing, deploying, monitoring, and operating the firms bare-metal UNIX servers.
In this role you will be responsible for ensuring optimal performance of the firms systems as well the full server lifecycle. This includes the maintenance of existing systems as well as the development of new innovative solutions in an ever evolving tech driven firm.
Responsibilities
- Be a key member of the rapidly growing Linux Systems Engineering Team, helping the firm push the boundaries of modern technology.
- Maintain existing systems ensuring performance is always at a top level and helping resolve any technical issues that arise.
- Develop new solutions to ensure that the firm is always improving.
- Help the firm to improve its automation capabilities.
- Remain up to date on all the industries latest technologies and solutions and introducing them as appropriate.
Requirements
- Years of experience working with large scale Linux/Unix servers.
- Highly experienced working with Python and using Ansible.
- Proactive team player who is able to collaborate and communicate effectively with a team.
- Strong understanding of Linux Kernel internals, virtualization and networking.
- Curious and innovative personality that allows you to always research and stay up to date with the latest technologies and solutions.
Experience within the finance industry is not a requirement and we welcome experienced candidates from other industries to apply, if you are interested in having a confidential conversation please contact me on