We are looking for an energetic and passionate engineer to bring new skills and perspectives to complement our Technical Operations department. We are made up of Systems, Networks and Security Specialists whose job is to build and maintain LMAX's infrastructure, enforce regulatory compliance, and provide a stable platform for our state-of-the-art trading engine.
The range of responsibility for our team is broad: from tuning operating systems to cloud automation, from packets on a wire to global connectivity, from Python scripting to large analytical simulations. We’re given high level milestones and the freedom to discuss, design, and deliver platforms upon which our entire business operates.
Senior Engineers drive improvements and change in a culture of personal responsibility and autonomy. Senior Engineers are key to delivery through automation, providing direction on how milestones are delivered, and providing input into future roadmaps.
This role is the first Systems Engineer position based in our New York Office. You would be expected to visit our New York data centre from time to time. There may also be a minor amount of desktop support and Windows in this office, when the global Windows team isn’t able to cover.
Requirements:
This should describe you
You’ve managed large scale technical projects before, and mentored junior colleagues.
You have experience with all levels of infrastructure; from the AWS CLI to the lower levels of Linux.
You are a generalist with a DevOps / automation-first mindset.
You love to learn, and you don’t shy away from responsibility. If the task requires rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty, you’re in.
Worked with Infrastructure-as-Code practices and tooling, and in a DevOps culture (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform).
Strong communication and self-organisation skills, project management.
You will bring some of these skills, but more importantly you're interested in some of the others
Configuration management (Puppet, Ansible)
Scripting experience (Bash, Python, Ruby)
Data-driven monitoring and observability (Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elastic)
Infrastructure design, architecture, and planning
Supporting CI/CD delivery pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, etc.
Hardware&physical infrastructure
Familiar with Cloud technology (AWS)
What you and the team will be doing
Support, monitoring and reliability of our ultra low latency trading platform
Automation that increases the efficiency of the team
Design well documented, simple and elegant systems which are easily supportable
Provisioning physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure for a wide variety of requirements
Pair working with Systems, Networks, and Security Specialists
Puppet development and testing in a continuous deployment process
Low level TCP debugging for diagnosing errors and latency issues
Scripting and automating processes to ensure consistency and repeatability
Monitoring systems to proactively prevent issues arising
Hardware upgrades and data centre installations
Business As Usual support and resolution of incidents
Infrequent support for Windows desktop and server environments
Company Benefits
Smart, friendly colleagues keen to share their knowledge and learn new things from you
The opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects, including cutting edge technology, and interesting technical & performance challenges
A culture where high quality maintainable code is valued over quick hacks
Generous funding pot for training courses and conferences
Flexible working options, and home working support
Competitive salary
25 days holiday (increasing to 30 with service), plus bank holidays
A benefits suite including ride to work & electric car schemes, private medical insurance, life insurance and critical illness cover, pension plan, gym membership & more