Senior Virtualization 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.
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About the Role
You will own and improve virtualization-platform infrastructure, processes, and standards. You will design, implement, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot OpenStack cloud components across compute, storage, and networking. You will automate manual work, resolve critical production issues through on-call support, coach engineers, investigate outages, and uphold operational and technical standards.
Requirements
- Expert-level proficiency administering OpenStack
- Deep knowledge of networking, storage, Linux, and virtualization fundamentals
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
- Scripting or coding experience in multiple languages such as Python, Golang, and Bash
- Experience maintaining, deploying, and configuring server hardware and deploying virtual machines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work across teams on technical and operational topics
Responsibilities
- Own and improve virtualization platform infrastructure, processes, and standards
- Automate repetitive manual tasks
- Design, implement, and manage OpenStack clouds
- Deploy, configure, and maintain OpenStack components
- Diagnose and resolve complex OpenStack compute, storage, and networking issues
- Provide customer service to platform users
- Coach engineers on best practices
- Investigate outages and uphold operational and technical standards
- Troubleshoot and resolve critical production issues as part of an on-call rotation