Linux Support Engineer

Dolat Capital, a quantitative trading firm, seeks a skilled Senior Linux Support Engineer to join our systems team. The Linux Support Engineer will help oversee the maintenance of hundreds of our production servers while supporting more than 100 users. Dolat has many high-capacity, low-latency, direct private lines between our sites, and we use the latest high-performance hardware.

Dolat’s Trading Support Engineers are the gatekeepers of the production trading environment. We firmly believe in balancing a safe, orderly production environment that works optimally by deploying, maintaining, monitoring and operating a fleet of Linux servers to its optimal performance. We are looking for engineers who share this vision, and who shun complexity in favor of simplicity. You will help enable our technology evolution while maintaining control. You will be expected to help build the various tools to keep our systems running to their highest optimal performance.

Responsibilities

• Debugging dropped packets, whether at the network, NIC, OS, or application layers
• Troubleshooting kernel panics and system hangs
• Analyzing performance issues
• Fine-tuning processes to run with the least jitter
• Directing support for our continuously active servers, lines, and low-latency network
• Installing, configuring, and deploying fully-distributed Red Hat Linux systems
• Taking a role in researching, testing, recommending, implementing, and maintaining a cutting- edge, ultra-low-latency system and network technologies
• Participating in an on-call rotation
• Deploy, monitor, and configure a complex suite of trading applications
• Provide exceptional trade support to a high-frequency trading floor environment
• Provide skilled hands-on technical expertise to trading, risk, middle office, and compliance teams across Windows and Linux platforms
• Develop fluency with existing systems, infrastructure, and procedures and proactively improve them
• Intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control
• Script against configuration files, databases, and logs
• Gather and analyze metrics to improve and report on the performance and efficiency of trading systems
• Work in tandem with the development team to ensure the health and stability of the production environment
• Continually drive production systems toward cleanliness, simplicity, and reliability
• Participate in deep-dive investigations necessary in troubleshooting and improving low latency systems
• Track and solve issues as part of fast-paced results driven set of IT teams
• Solving problems by providing level one and level two support for our reporting and tools
• Testing and releasing the tools to production
• Monitoring daily reports and run of scheduled jobs
• Monitoring and reporting on the status and health of our systems
• Serving as the primary technical contact for compliance and risk managers
• Contributing to the design and implementation of the support system to enhance reliability and self-correction
• Provides support for the front office, middle office and back-office applications and users
• Facilitate communication between trading, infrastructure and software development teams
• Supports proprietary and third-party trading systems and infrastructure
• Contributes to the engineering efforts to automate processes, monitor systems and
• Improve software management on both Microsoft and Linux platforms.
• Communicate directly with exchanges, clearing members and ISV’s to resolve trading issues
• Work with software development teams to improve, monitor and maintain internal systems
• Maintain enterprise scheduling, release and monitoring systems
• Provide support for local and co-located datacenters

Qualifications