UAT & Development Systems Engineer - Reliability

DRW; United States; Remote; USD 115,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

DRW is seeking a Systems Support Engineer to ensure parity between lower and production environments and to build reliable tooling and processes across Dev/UAT and production ecosystems.

You will work with development, QA, release management and ops teams to reduce outages, implement monitoring, and report on performance. This role emphasizes collaboration, problem solving, and hands-on operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related STEM field.
• 2+ years of experience managing and troubleshooting Linux-based environments.
• Knowledge of network communications, including multicast networking.
• Experience applying operational best practices in Dev and UAT settings.
• Experience with incident response and root cause analysis.
• Prior experience supporting electronic trading systems preferred.
• Ability to coordinate multiple priorities under time pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience with scripting/automation using languages such as Python, Bash, Go, Java, or JavaScript.
• Competence in cloud platforms, containerization, monitoring/alerting systems, and distributed messaging (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, RabbitMQ).
• Exposure to AI coding assistants and agentic tools for automation.

Responsibilities

• Increase parity between lower and production environments by standardizing tooling, infrastructure and configurations.
• Implement monitoring, alerting and incident response for UAT and Development.
• Reduce environment downtime and improve reliability during testing.
• Track and report on environment performance and outage metrics.
• Collaborate with production operations and development teams to share best practices.
• Ensure the status and stability of lower environments to deliver operational excellence.

Skills

Linux administration

Multicast networking

Incident response

Electronic trading awareness

Prioritization under pressure

Communication skills

Scripting/Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or related STEM field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

RabbitMQ

Python

Job description

DRW is seeking a Systems Support Engineer to ensure parity between lower and production environments and to build reliable tooling and processes across Dev/UAT and production ecosystems.

You will work with development, QA, release management and ops teams to reduce outages, implement monitoring, and report on performance. This role emphasizes collaboration, problem solving, and hands-on operational excellence.