IT Operations Support Engineer
Active proprietary trading firm trading its own capital across global financial markets, including cryptocurrency.
About VivCourt Trading
VivCourt Trading, publicly branded primarily as VivCourt, is a proprietary multi-strategy trading firm founded in 2011. It uses data, technology, and market expertise across equities, ETFs, options, fixed income, foreign exchange, cryptocurrency, and energy markets, with operations in Australia, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam. The firm states that it has no external shareholders and directs profits toward employees and social impact.
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About the Role
You will maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize high-performance, low-latency infrastructure supporting financial market operations. You will administer RHEL systems on bare-metal hardware and hypervisors, maintain highly available routing and multicast environments, implement security controls and disaster recovery procedures, coordinate maintenance windows and upgrades, and improve configuration management, observability, and operational tooling.
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of experience in a similar role
- Demonstrate experience with complex, mission-critical infrastructure environments
- Have hands-on experience with BGP, OSPF, PIM, and IGMP
- Be curious, proactive, and able to identify operational issues early
- Use strong reasoning skills and think several steps ahead
- Respond quickly and confidently to incidents under pressure
Responsibilities
- Support, tune, and optimize RHEL systems on bare-metal hardware and hypervisors
- Maintain highly available routing and multicast environments using BGP, OSPF, PIM, and IGMP
- Design and implement security controls and disaster recovery procedures
- Lead maintenance windows and operational upgrades
- Coordinate with internal teams, external exchanges, and colocation providers
- Improve configuration management, observability, and operational tooling using Ansible, Zabbix, and Python