Our client is seeking a Senior Technology Operations Engineer to work in their Chicago office. They are seeking an experienced individual with a strong sense of ownership to help solve complex problems and improve the processes and tools. The ideal candidate is someone who can anticipate challenges and help build tools to make the environment work easier, faster, and more reliably.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-level team activities such as suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements and conducting tool evaluations
- Automate software distribution and deployments for Linux and Windows applications to speed up the application deployments
- Monitor the trading system and work to identify and resolve issues
- Identify, diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems to keep trading online
- Work with Risk and Trading desks to understand and facilitate trading requirements
- Manage daily changes and communicate status to the company
- Build new tools to manage the system and reduce effort and errors
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- Financial industry experience is required
- 3+ years of experience using, managing, or developing on Linux systems
- Fluent with Windows and Linux platforms
- Proficient in a scripting language, preferably Python
- Comfortable with distributed version control like Git, Mercurial, or Subversion
- Familiar with configuration management systems like Salt, Puppet, or Chef
- Familiarity with monitoring tools, such as Solarwinds, Nagios, Cacti, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks with high attention to detail in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
- Motivated to identify and problem solve issues in a timely manner
- Ability to work rotating shift schedule
