Junior Low-Latency Trading Systems Engineer

Hudson River Trading; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Junior Trading Systems Engineer to join our Trading Systems Infrastructure team. You will help design, build, and maintain the ultra low-latency infrastructure that powers our global trading operations, delivering high availability and performance across Linux environments, automation, and development tools.

You’ll work on real-time production systems, tackle challenging technical issues, and collaborate with teams across the organization.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience managing Linux systems, including installation of packages, users, services, and logs; basic TCP/IP networking.
• Experience installing and configuring Linux systems from hardware to kernel to applications.
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable.
• Configuration management tools familiarity: SaltStack; some knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is desirable.
• Project management skills.
• Proven programming experience: building software and defending design decisions.
• Basic shell (bash) scripting experience.
• Experience using JIRA.
• Strong cross-functional communication and organizational skills.
• Experience with production systems and cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure with complex projects.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack.
• Plan and implement system installations and upgrades.
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications.
• Improve documentation and reduce technical debt.
• Benchmark the performance of the trading stack with SMEs.
• Join an on-call rotation to cover trading hours and weekends as needed.

Skills

Linux systems

Programming experience

Bash scripting

Cross-functional communication

Networking basics

Tools

SaltStack

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

CFEngine

JIRA

AWS

GCP

Debian/Ubuntu

Job description

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Junior Trading Systems Engineer to join our Trading Systems Infrastructure team. You will help design, build, and maintain the ultra low-latency infrastructure that powers our global trading operations, delivering high availability and performance across Linux environments, automation, and development tools.

You’ll work on real-time production systems, tackle challenging technical issues, and collaborate with teams across the organization.