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Senior Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Engineer

 

Website Trading Technologies

Futures Trading Platform

We are looking for a driven and inventive Senior IaC and Automation Engineer to join our team. The Systems Engineering team architects, implements and supports global hybrid compute and storage services for our development and production environments. As a Senior IaC Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our infrastructure automation processes using modern DevOps practices and tools. This role is in support of the global Systems Engineering team responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of infrastructure that supports our high performance SaaS trading platform and automating the delivery of existing and new infrastructure services. You will collaborate closely with development, operations, and security teams to drive efficiency, scalability, and reliability across our technology stack. An ideal candidate is someone who has a passion for technology, automation and innovation; who brings a strong technical knowledge and experience of the entire infrastructure stack to bear in support of both industry standard and in-house built applications.

 

What Will You Be Involved With?
  • Design and implement infrastructure automation solutions using tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation and Chef to manage cloud-based and on-premises environments.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define infrastructure requirements, develop architecture designs, and implement scalable solutions insuring ensuring the seamless transition of software from development to production
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management.
  • Conduct regular code reviews, perform testing, and maintain documentation to ensure the reliability and repeatability of infrastructure deployments.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure automation, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal system performance.
  • Facilitate improvements to platform stability and site reliability by collaborating with and working closely alongside internal teams and stakeholders across the organization
  • Act as a hands-on technical advisor, mentoring peers and providing technical guidance on best practices for infrastructure automation and DevOps processes.
  • Design and implement automation improvements to support large scale Linux, Windows, SAN storage, and virtualization environments (e.g. Nutanix, VMware)
  • Perform provisioning and automation enhancements via scripting (e.g. Bash and Python) and centralized management tools (e.g. Chef)

 

What Will You Bring to the Table?
  • Team player who is comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment and possesses excellent customer service, verbal and written communication skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, and at least 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • Proven experience (5+ years) as an Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role focused on infrastructure automation and IaC.
  • Expertise in using infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage cloud-based environments (e.g. AWS, Azure).
  • Strong proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and configuration management tasks.
  • Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and infrastructure architecture.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to system monitoring and performance tuning.
  • Strong operating systems management skills, with a proven background in Linux (RHEL/CentOS) administration, Windows administration experience a plus
  • Experience supporting virtualized environments on centralized storage,( e.g. Nutanix, VMware vSphere).
  • Ability to work on-call or weekends as necessary

 

What We Bring to the Table
  • Medical Dental, Vision Coverage
  • 30 days of PTO, plus additional sick days and paid holidays
  • Parental and Adoption leave
  • Stipends and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones and laptops, gym memberships, and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted 
  • Forward-thinking, a culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion and inclusion 

Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.

Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices

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