Virtualization Engineer | Openstack | Experienced Hire

SIG Susquehanna; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Virtualization Engineer to revolutionize their trading platform infrastructure. This role involves automating server deployments, optimizing virtualization environments, and collaborating with developers to implement scalable solutions. Your expertise in Python and open-source virtualization technologies will be key as you design a next-generation VM platform set to enhance performance and capacity planning. Join a team of relentless problem solvers dedicated to achieving winning results in the dynamic world of quantitative trading.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in building HPC platforms.
• Familiarity with kernel-level tweaks and I/O subsystem tools.
• Hands-on experience with automation in Python.

Responsibilities

• Automate server deployments using Python and Jenkins.
• Optimize virtualization environments for performance.
• Design next-generation VM platform in OpenStack.

Skills

Python

Bash

Linux

Windows HPC

OpenStack

RedHat OpenShift

KubeVirt

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems

Tools

Jenkins

sysctl

strace

tcpdump

netstat

Job description

Overview

Susquehanna is seeking a Virtualization Engineer to design and build infrastructure for trading platforms, working closely with other infrastructure engineers and software developers to create scalable systems.

What You'll Do:

• Automate and Evolve: Contribute to our library of home-grown tools, written primarily in Python and Bash, utilizing tools such as Jenkins to automate bare-metal and virtual server deployments, monitoring, and maintenance, allowing you to focus on performance related issues and projects.

• Optimize: Tune virtualization environments for performance and network stacks for throughput and latency. Dive deep on root-cause analysis of systems issues. Anything is fair game if there's impact.

• Collaborate: Work closely with Strategy Developers and Quantitative Researchers to understand business problems. Implement scalable solutions using SAN and high-speed networks.

• Create: Design and implement our next-generation VM platform in Openstack which is slated to replace our 7500 guest VMWare environment.

• Monitor: Effectively track and display cluster capacity to ensure optimal performance. Forecast and prepare for increased resource demands. Develop tools that best fit our needs for monitoring and capacity planning.

What we're looking for

• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 5-7 years of progressive experience building Linux and/or Windows based HPC based platforms.
• Familiarity with kernel-level and I/O subsystem tweaks and tools such as sysctl, strace, tcpdump, and netstat.
• Recent hands-on experience with automation in Python or other tools.
• In-depth experience in open-source-based virtualization such as Openstack, RedHat Openshift, kubevirt, or similar.

About Susquehanna
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.

What we do
We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

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