Job Description
CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
CTC is looking for a Senior Linux Engineer to join our Linux Engineering team. We leverage software and hardware engineering to deliver Linux infrastructure in support of our real-time trading environment, development systems, research arrays, OpenShift clusters, and more. This role will require deep technical, operational, and people skills to work across all areas of the trading platform. You will join a tight knit team that emphasizes collaboration, candor, competence, and a passion for finding solutions to complex problems.
What You’ll Do:
- Build, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot multiple on-prem OpenShift clusters across multiple continents
- Design, implement, operate, and support CTC’s global Linux infrastructure
- Collaborate with traders, developers, operations teams, technologists, and management to deliver high-quality solutions to real-world problems
- Take a data driven approach to analysing and solving complex problems
- Use an engineering mindset and automation to improve service delivery and increase user satisfaction
- Guide projects from beginning to end, including design, procurement, implementation, and documentation
- Research new technologies and solutions; be a catalyst for change
- Constantly improve monitoring and alerting for system and application performance
- Participate in an on-call rotation with the team for off-hours support. Other duties as assigned or needed.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience running OpenShift is required
- Experience running OpenShift/Kubernetes on bare metal is preferred
- Strong experience supporting multiple geographically disparate OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters
- Experience tuning OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters for low latency applications is preferred
- Proven success designing, implementing, and operating Linux systems at scale
- Deep understanding of Linux system internals
- Financial trading industry experience and automation skills are preferred
- Cloud (Azure, AWS) experience is preferred
What It Takes To Be Successful:
- A team oriented and customer service mindset with a strong will to succeed
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
Our Benefits
We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.
(Disclaimer: Interns and Contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.