Talent Pool: Trading Systems Engineer
$160,000–$215,000 year
On-siteChicago, Illinois, United States or New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Serve as the US-based SME for the GCP platform with a focus on GKE workloads, improving Terraform-driven infrastructure and shaping cloud architecture across regions. Identify engineering pain points to reduce toil and deliver high-impact solutions while leveraging automation to optimize Linux and Kubernetes environments spanning bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-native systems. Strengthen platform reliability by enhancing global monitoring and alerting frameworks with adaptive, self-healing mechanisms. Act as a senior escalation point for complex Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud issues during on-call rotations, ensuring thorough incident resolution. Provide regional technical leadership by collaborating with global stakeholders to define and implement platform standards and large-scale initiatives. Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate analysis, troubleshooting, and operational automation.
Required Qualifications
- 7–10+ years operating complex production environments spanning Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud‐native infrastructure
- Deep Cloud experience, preferably within GKE or an equivalent stack (cluster ops, workload orchestration, networking, security, observability)
- Strong Terraform expertise for provisioning and managing secure, scalable infrastructure
- Solid Linux fundamentals — performance tuning, debugging, networking, virtualization, and bare‐metal experience
- Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation, tooling, and operational workflows
- Experience with Kafka or similar streaming/data‐pipeline technologies
- Knowledge of Puppet/Ansible for configuration management and Foreman/Satellite for lifecycle and host management
- Practical understanding of monitoring/observability (Prometheus/Grafana or similar) and modern alerting strategies
- Strong Git‐centric workflows and comfort with modern CI/CD practices
- Ability to lead and influence technical direction at a regional level while collaborating effectively with global colleagues
- An entrepreneurial mindset — proactively identifying gaps, reducing toil, and driving self‐directed engineering improvements
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