Systems Engineer
Summary
Responsible for Akuna’s Linux server platform health, designing and maintaining high-performance trading infrastructure. Day-to-day tasks include automating software/hardware tasks with Python or Bash, managing Kubernetes clusters, and performing low-latency system tuning.
About Akuna:
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialise in providing liquidity as an options market maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.
Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore and London.
What you'll do as a Systems Engineer at Akuna:
We are looking for a Systems Engineer to be responsible for Akuna’s Linux server platform health. This person will participate in the design, deployment, and maintenance of our high-performance platform to support our trading environment. They will also automate daily software and hardware tasks while writing and maintaining scripts and tools. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, proactive, and able to take ownership of projects and problems with minimal supervision. In this role, you will:
- Investigate new products and techniques to improve efficiency and performance in the environment
- Management of Akuna’s server infrastructure at third party and local data centres
- Additional day-to-day responsibilities include system analysis, monitoring, and performance tuning, as well as additional support as required
Qualities that make great candidates:
- 4-6 years of systems engineering experience
- Advanced experience with a variety of Linux distributions (RedHat, Ubuntu ,etc.)
- Experience in managing and running services within K8s clusters
- Experience in automation of daily software and hardware related tasks, Python or Bash scripting experience preferred
- Experience with build and configuration management tools (Ansible/Rundeck, Puppet, Foreman)
- Experience with system monitoring and alerting tools (Icinga/Nagios, Prometheus, Alertmanager)
- Experience in virtualization and orchestration platforms like VMware, Kubernetes and Terraform
- Experience in supporting a variety of storage platforms/protocols
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling
- Linux kernel and low latency performance tuning
- Knowledge of database systems, including PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Experience in troubleshooting multicast and TCP related performance issues
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot issues
- Good English communication skills
Bonus
- Ideally a STEM degree (Bachelors, Masters or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.
Skills
As published by greenhouse · 15 questions · 2 written answers
Basics
First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Location
Short answers (5)
- Preferred First Name optional
- What is your legal full name?
- If you have a degree, (bachelors/masters/PhD), please indicate your graduation year and month for your highest qualification. Thank you.
- How many years of Linux kernel tuning experience do you have in a low latency environment?
- How many years of Kubernetes experience do you have?
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- Please confirm your legal authorization to work in Australia:
- How many years of Linux systems engineering on premise experience do you have?
- How many years of experience do you have with system monitoring and configuration management tools (Ansible, Rundeck, Puppet, Foreman, Icinga/Nagios, Prometheus, Alertmanager)?
- Have you applied to a full time or internship position with Akuna (any office location) in the past?
- How did you first hear about Akuna?
- Do you have any offer deadlines that we should be aware of? optional
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- If you selected 'Other', how did you first hear about Akuna? (please be specific) optional