Systems Engineer

AlphaGrep Securities; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaGrep Securities is seeking a Systems Engineer to join their London trading team. The role involves managing Linux infrastructure, scaling distributed systems, and ensuring security automation. With a focus on performance enhancement, this position offers the opportunity to work within a dynamic environment alongside skilled professionals in quantitative trading.

Benefits

Health & Wellness Programs

Gym membership

Generous vacation package

Yearly offsites

Corporate sports teams

Qualifications

• Experience with security automation is essential.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and performance benchmarking required.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices is a must.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain trading team’s Linux infrastructure.
• Manage and scale distributed file systems for data centers.
• Automate detection of suspicious activities for security.

Skills

Experience with distributed systems

Security automation

Configuration management tools

Network protocols

Bash scripting

Tools

GitLab

BitBucket

GitHub

MySQL

RedHat CentOS

Job description

AlphaGrep is a quantitative trading and investment firm foundedin 2010.We are one of the largest firms by trading volume on Indian exchanges and have significant market share on several large global exchanges as well. We use a disciplined and systematic quantitative approach to identify factors that consistently generate alpha. These factors are then coupled with our proprietary ultra-low latency trading systems and robust risk management to develop trading strategies across asset classes (equities, commodities, currencies, fixed income) that trade on global exchanges.

We are seeking a bright and resourceful individual who will work as Systems Engineer with our trading team which is based out of our London office.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Supporting and Maintaining the trading team’s trading Linux Infrastructure
• Proactively working on issues, identifying problem areas and providing solutions to enhance performance
• Managing, Benchmarking and Scaling Distributed File System (NFS, GlusterFS, ReadyNAS) for hosted data centres and public clouds
• Managing, Benchmarking and Scaling Job Scheduling services (SunGridEngine, Oracle Grid Engine) for hosted data centres and public clouds
• Managing, Benchmarking and Scaling hosting services for - git repos, issue trackers, web servers and portals. Ensuring secured access to authorized devices.
• Managing and monitoring Security solutions for secured access to linux systems. Automating detection of suspicious activities.
• Managing essential core services such as DHCP, LDAP, DNS
• Interacting with firm’s system team for smooth operations
• Managing and benchmarking network connectivity, automated alerts for flaps, auto-switching to backups in co-ordination with firm’s system team
• Working with vendors to procure high performance hardware and resolve issues

Required Skills

• Experience with distributed systems - ReadyNAS, GlusterFS, GPFS, GFS etc
• Experience with two factor authentication and security automations
• Experience with GitLab, BitBucket, GitHub etc hosting, securing and scaling, Experience with CI/CD (TeamCity etc) hosting, securing and scaling
• Experience with MySQL server hosting and performance benchmarking
• Experience with configuration management tools, package management tools, user management tools
• Knowledge of RedHat Centos and simultaneous setup for python2.7 and python 3.8
• Expert knowledge of bash, ACL, other access control frameworks
• Understanding of server-side networking, networking protocols, designing and configuring network layout

Why You Should Join Us

• Great People. We’re curious engineers, mathematicians, statisticians and like to have fun while achieving our goals
• Transparent Structure. Our employees know that we value their ideas and contributions
• Relaxed Environment. We have a flat organizational structure with frequent activities for all employees such as yearly offsites, happy hours, corporate sports teams, etc.
• Health & Wellness Programs. We believe that a balanced employee is more productive. A stocked kitchen, gym membership and generous vacation package are just some of the perks that we offer our employees

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