At IMC, technology is at the core of everything we do, and how we build and maintain our user space infrastructure is key to our global success. Our Operations Engineering team designs, automates, and scales the systems that power our workstations, tools, and user environments across macOS, Linux and Windows. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in advancing automation within this team and streamlining workflows, ensuring our user environment is super reliable and more scalable every day.
You’ll be a key contributor in uplifting the team’s technical capabilities, enabling smarter operations across our Amsterdam office and will support global automation initiatives, helping us replicate and scale our best practices.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Engineer, maintain, and evolve user environments across macOS, and Linux mostly, ensuring high availability, performance, and seamless user experience that scales into the future.
- Build automated workflows using Python and/or PowerShell and integrate third-party tools via APIs to reduce manual overhead.
- Optimize performance for user-facing tools and platforms, including troubleshooting JVM behaviour on macOS and Windows.
- Lead by example, mentoring team members and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and smart automation.
- Collaborate with other (senior) engineers in the team on Windows related topics.
- Collaborate with engineering teams across Amsterdam, London, Zug, Chicago, and APAC to ensure consistent user experience and infrastructure.
- Design and implement monitoring and alerting solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and other observability tools.
Your Skills and Experience:
We are seeking T-shaped engineers with deep expertise in systems engineering that have a broad understanding of adjacent areas. You’re someone who sees beyond the ticket queue, who wants to engineer solutions, not just fix problems.
- 6+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer in enterprise or high-performance environments.
- Deep expertise in macOS and Linux environments, combined with hybrid cloud setups (Azure, GCP, AWS)
- Comfortable scripting and automating tasks using PowerShell, Python, and API integrations.
- Familiarity with JVM-based applications and performance tuning in both Mac and Windows environments is a strong plus.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, especially in the context of host systems and macOS (and Windows) environments.
- Solid documentation and operational handover habits, empowering others to follow clear processes.
- A problem-solving mindset: able to zoom out, propose smarter solutions, and reduce technical debt through automation.
- Certifications in Linux/macOS/Windows are considered to be a plus.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
