Platform Engineer
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. It provides liquidity across global financial markets using advanced technology, quantitative research, trading strategies, and automation.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design and implement cloud solutions, automate infrastructure as code, improve cloud governance and security, monitor hybrid-cloud environments, operate Kubernetes and distributed data systems, build CI/CD pipelines, and maintain reliable production platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred
- Experience deploying, operating, and scaling Kubernetes in production
- Experience with Amazon EKS and on-premise clusters
- Expertise designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure
- Experience with GCP is a plus
- Advanced Terraform and Infrastructure as Code proficiency
- Experience building highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native platforms
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills
- Python or Bash scripting
- Experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, Redshift, and DynamoDB
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers
- Communication and collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Ensure effective use of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud services
- Manage public cloud growth
- Improve the hybrid-cloud operating model
- Evaluate solution architectures
- Provision, configure, upgrade, and monitor Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, and distributed databases
- Automate infrastructure management and development pipelines
- Explore cloud-native and container technologies
- Monitor systems, clusters, and cloud deployments
- Detect errors and monitor performance
- Maintain reliable production systems
Benefits
- Employer-paid medical insurance
- Employer-paid dental insurance
- Employer-paid vision insurance
- Retirement contributions
- Paid time off