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Junior Linux Engineer, Trading Infrastructure

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Job Summary:

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Support Engineer to join their dynamic Systems team, responsible for maintaining the infrastructure that powers their trading. The role involves deploying and managing servers, ensuring optimal performance, and tackling diverse technical challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Write detailed documentation and instructions for server installation and patching

• Operating system installation and upgrading

• Script solutions to automate repetitive tasks

• Help evaluate demo systems from vendors

• Join on-call rotation and Linux troubleshooting

• Performance testing and tuning

• Work with vendors to resolve issues

• Interface closely with data center techs to complete hardware installations

• Plan and execute technical projects to make our Linux trading systems (hardware, network, OS, etc.) faster, adaptable, and more maintainable

• Manage and optimize worldwide trading infrastructure

• Automate and troubleshoot a broad range of technical infrastructure

• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues

• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications

• Server break/fix and troubleshooting

Qualifications:

Required:

• 2+ years of relevant experience among the following: Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux systems, especially Debian and its derivatives

• Using Linux/UNIX command line tools and configuration management tools

• Python or comparable programming experience focusing on automation and integration

• Shell (bash or comparable) scripting

• Supporting a live production environment (especially trading)

• Configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack but also Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine

• Strong attention to detail to manage and debug production services

• Exceptional communication skills - this role will require cross-collaboration with various stakeholders across HRT

• Ability to manage projects efficiently

Preferred:

• Cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable but not required

Company:

Hudson River Trading opertes as a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Hudson River Trading has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

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