Systems Engineer

AKUNA CAPITAL SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trading firm in Singapore is seeking a Systems Engineer to maintain their Linux server platform and support their trading environment. The role involves automating tasks, managing server infrastructure, and implementing solutions to improve performance. Candidates must have a degree in Computer Science and relevant experience in systems engineering and cloud platforms like AWS.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and proactive.
• Ability to take ownership of projects.
• Good English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Akuna’s Linux server platform health.
• Design and deploy high-performance platforms.
• Automate daily software and hardware tasks.

Skills

4-6 years of systems engineering experience

Advanced experience with Linux distributions

Experience in K8s clusters

Experience managing AWS Cloud environments

Python or Bash scripting skills

Experience with build/config management tools

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

VMware

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

About Akuna:

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialise in providing liquidity as an options market maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.

Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore and London.

What you'll do as a Systems Engineer at Akuna:

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to be responsible for Akuna’s Linux server platform health. This person will participate in the design, deployment, and maintenance of our high-performance platform to support our trading environment. They will also automate daily software and hardware tasks while writing and maintaining scripts and tools. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, proactive, and able to take ownership of projects and problems with minimal supervision. In this role, you will:

• Investigate new products and techniques to improve efficiency and performance in the environment
• Responsible for architecture and maintenance of a tier-based storage solution
• Management of Akuna’s server infrastructure at third party and local data centres
• Additional day-to-day responsibilities include system analysis, monitoring, and performance tuning, as well as additional support as required

Qualities that make great candidates:

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related experience
• Good English communication skills
• 4-6 years of systems engineering experience
• Advanced experience with a variety of Linux distributions (RedHat, Ubuntu ,etc.)
• Experience in managing and running services within K8s clusters
• Experience in managing a large scale AWS Cloud platform environment
• Experience in automation of daily software and hardware related tasks, Python or Bash scripting experience preferred
• Experience with build and configuration management tools (Ansible/Rundeck, Puppet, Foreman)
• Experience with system monitoring and alerting tools (Icinga/Nagios, Prometheus, Alertmanager)
• Experience in virtualization and orchestration platforms like VMware, Kubernetes and Terraform
• Experience in supporting a variety of storage platforms/protocols
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling
• Linux kernel and low latency performance tuning
• Knowledge of database systems, including PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience in troubleshooting multicast and TCP related performance issues
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot issues

Please apply via this link: https://grnh.se/b03858c61us