Senior Linux Engineer
DRW is a Chicago-based diversified trading firm that uses technology, quantitative research, and risk management to provide liquidity across traditional and digital-asset markets.
About DRW
Founded by Don Wilson in 1992, DRW trades for its own account across global markets and operates strategies in cryptoassets, venture capital, real estate, carbon markets, and public-equity investments. Its crypto business, Cumberland, has provided institutional crypto-asset liquidity since 2014.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will configure, deploy, and maintain Linux environments using repeatable practices. You will monitor and troubleshoot servers, package applications, maintain repositories, automate system-administration work, collaborate on projects and on-call schedules, support trading teams, and evaluate hardware and software solutions.
Requirements
- Configuration management
- Ansible
- Chef
- Puppet
- Bash
- Python
- Linux
- High availability
- Red Hat
- Debian
- CentOS
- Rocky Linux
- AlmaLinux
- Oracle Linux
- Ubuntu
- Kerberos
- DNS
- DHCP
- Kubernetes
- VMware
- OpenStack
- Linux performance tuning
- Low-latency trading
- IP networking
- Routing
- Multicast
Responsibilities
- Coordinate engineering work, projects, changes, and on-call schedules with a global Linux Engineering team
- Serve as a liaison to trading desks and internal teams
- Configure, deploy, and maintain Linux environments declaratively and repeatably
- Monitor Linux server health and perform troubleshooting
- Package applications and maintain software repositories
- Automate repetitive system-administration tasks
- Evaluate and recommend hardware and software solutions
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Medical insurance
- Pharmacy insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k with discretionary employer match
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account