Systems Engineer
Virtu Financial is a global financial services firm and market maker providing liquidity, execution services, analytics, and trading technology across multiple asset classes.
About Virtu Financial, Inc.
Virtu Financial, Inc. leverages market-structure expertise and technology to provide liquidity and transparent trading solutions across equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income, cryptocurrency, and commodities. Its offerings include market making, execution services, liquidity sourcing, multi-asset analytics, data products, compliance tools, and broker-neutral workflow technology.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Design, build, and support high-performance servers across datacenters and offices. Analyze and resolve Linux server issues, maintain operating system packages and scripts, optimize infrastructure to reduce latency, manage configuration changes, collaborate with technology groups and vendors, and support long-term infrastructure strategy and capacity planning.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of Linux or Unix administration experience
- Kernel tuning experience
- Strong understanding of networking protocols and network topology including NFS, DHCP, IP, TCP, UDP, TFTP, and NTP
- Knowledge of Kickstart, Ansible, and Git
- Strong Python scripting ability
- BIOS configuration experience
- Ability to manage multiple projects and coordinate work with teams and vendors
- MySQL or Postgres experience is a plus
- HT Condor, HTC clusters, Team City, Keycloak, and Atlassian suite experience are a plus
Responsibilities
- Analyze, diagnose, and resolve Linux-based server issues
- Create, test, deploy, and maintain operating system packages, batch files, and scripts
- Identify optimization opportunities to reduce latency and increase efficiency
- Manage move, add, and change requests and configurations
- Engage with internal technology groups and vendors to deliver solutions
- Assist with long-term infrastructure strategies and capacity planning
Benefits
- Opportunity to make an impact in a highly visible role
- Upward and geographic mobility
- Direct exposure to business decision makers and senior leaders
- Investment in the technology department
- Passionate teams focused on learning and improvement
- Work-life balance
Hiring Process
Initial resume screening followed by an online system administration test.