IT Operations Engineer - Low-Latency Trading Infra

Open Roles at VivCourt; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

VivCourt in Sydney is seeking an experienced IT Operations Engineer to maintain and optimize our high-performance, low-latency trading infrastructure. You will work on hardware-backed systems running global exchange workloads and ensure resilience and security.

The role emphasizes rapid incident response, precision under pressure, and collaboration across teams to plan upgrades and improve automation using Ansible, Zabbix, and Python.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a similar IT operations role in high-performance environments.
• Strong Linux system administration and automation skills.
• Experience with low-latency, high-availability infrastructure.
• Ability to respond quickly to incidents and implement fixes.

Responsibilities

• Support, tune, and optimize RHEL systems on bare-metal hardware and hypervisors.
• Maintain highly available routing and multicast environments using BGP, OSPF, PIM, and IGMP.
• Design and implement security controls and disaster recovery procedures for mission-critical infrastructure.
• Lead maintenance windows and upgrades with internal teams and external exchanges.
• Improve configuration management, observability, and tooling (Ansible, Zabbix, Python).

Skills

Detail-oriented

Analytical thinking

Incident response

Proactive & curious

Strong communication

Tools

RHEL

Ansible

Zabbix

Python

Networking (BGP/OSPF)

Job description

VivCourt in Sydney is seeking an experienced IT Operations Engineer to maintain and optimize our high-performance, low-latency trading infrastructure. You will work on hardware-backed systems running global exchange workloads and ensure resilience and security.

The role emphasizes rapid incident response, precision under pressure, and collaboration across teams to plan upgrades and improve automation using Ansible, Zabbix, and Python.