Senior Engineer, Systems Engineering

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in Atlanta, GA, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to maintain high availability and performance across Linux and Windows environments, supporting development, non-production, and production workloads.

The role collaborates with release engineers, developers, and operations, applying automation, tuning, and fault-tolerant design to deliver reliable services in a fast-paced, service-oriented team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems (RedHat variants preferred).
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with git, foreman, Jenkins, or equivalent tooling.
• Demonstrable knowledge of multi-tiered, highly available, and resilient application design.
• Working knowledge of horizontal and vertical scaling for performance and high availability.
• Ability to specify hardware requirements and make recommendations based on application needs.
• Demonstrable experience leveraging AI tooling to improve work quality and efficiency.
• Thorough understanding of core system security & hardening concepts and processes.
• Top-tier analytics and problem solving.
• Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment.
• Excellent project management, organization, and time management skills.
• Customer-focused, and dedicated to the best possible user experience.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and business resources.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, planning and implementation of server solutions, ensuring maximum performance and reliability
• Automate manual tasks using scripting and application development
• Investigate and adopt new technologies/tools as needs arise
• Respond to and assist in production operations in a 24/7 environment
• Work efficiently in a fast-paced environment and handle priorities effectively
• Ensure meticulous attention to detail and maintain excellent organizational skills
• Evaluate, test, and integrate new operating system versions, drivers, and patches
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
• Lead and execute internal infrastructure initiatives including patching, refreshes, upgrades, and decommissions
• Provide support to, and coordinate with, developers, operations staff, release engineers, and end-users
• Collaborate effectively with team members to achieve project goals and maintain system integrity
• Educate and mentor team members and operations staff
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support

Skills

Linux administration

Automation

Scripting

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

Git

Foreman

Jenkins

Job description

Overview

Locations: Atlanta, Georgia

We are on a mission as a team. We are problem solvers and partners, always starting with our customers to solve their challenges and create opportunities. Our start-up roots keep us nimble, flexible, and moving fast. We take ownership and make decisions. We all work for one company and work together to drive growth across the business. We engage in robust debates to find the best path, and then we move forward as one team. We take pride in what we do, acting with integrity and passion, so that our customers can perform better. We are experts and enthusiasts - combining ever-expanding knowledge with leading technology to consistently deliver results, solutions and opportunities for our customers and stakeholders. Every day we work toward transforming global markets.

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for creating and maintaining availability and high-performance in mixed Linux and Windows development, non-production, and production environments. This individual works as part of a results-oriented, service-delivery team and assists in configuration analysts, release engineers, developers, and operations teams. Additionally, the Senior Systems Engineer performs root cause analysis of problems, selects, and implements automation tools, and actively participates in deep technical discourse. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of system tuning and fault-tolerant design principles as used in high-performance, low-latency computing workloads.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, planning and implementation of server solutions, ensuring maximum performance and reliability
• Automate manual tasks using scripting and application development
• Investigate and adopt new technologies/tools as needs arise
• Respond to and assist in production operations in a 24/7 environment
• Work efficiently in a fast-paced environment and handle priorities effectively
• Ensure meticulous attention to detail and maintain excellent organizational skills
• Evaluate, test, and integrate new operating system versions, drivers, and patches
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
• Lead and execute internal infrastructure initiatives including patching, refreshes, upgrades, and decommissions
• Provide support to, and coordinate with, developers, operations staff, release engineers, and end-users
• Collaborate effectively with team members to achieve project goals and maintain system integrity
• Educate and mentor team members and operations staff
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering
• 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems (RedHat variants preferred)
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or equivalent
• Familiarity with git, foreman, Jenkins, or equivalent tooling
• Demonstrable knowledge of multi-tiered, highly available, and resilient application design
• Working knowledge of horizontal and vertical scaling for performance and high availability
• Ability to specify hardware requirements and make recommendations based on application needs
• Demonstrable experience leveraging AI tooling to improve work quality and efficiency
• Thorough understanding of core system security & hardening concepts and processes
• Top-tier analytics and problem solving
• Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment
• Excellent project management, organization, and time management skills
• Customer-focused, and dedicated to the best possible user experience
• Communicate effectively with both technical and business resources

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Experience building and supporting bare-metal enterprise servers such as HPE, DELL, IBM, etc.
• Experience with server virtualization technologies (VMWare, Proxmox, etc)
• Familiarity and experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Tanzu, etc)
• Experience with Linux systems networking protocols and configuration (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, InfiniBand, etc.)
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining low-latency computing ecosystems

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.