Infrastructure Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Infrastructure Engineer (Fintech): Managing and maintaining cloud-based systematic trading infrastructure and building tools to enable and accelerate research with an accent on optimizing low-latency systematic trading compute and network infrastructure. Focus on troubleshooting technical issues, monitoring system performance, and collaborating with quantitative researchers, traders, and developers.

Location: Ability to travel periodically between offices in London, NYC, and Zug, Switzerland

Salary: $125,000 and $200,000

Company

hirify.global is seeking an experienced DevOps Infrastructure Engineer to manage and maintain their cloud-based systematic trading infrastructure and build tools to enable and accelerate research.

What you will do

• Create, manage, and maintain production, research, and trading infrastructure across multiple cloud regions.
• Optimize low-latency systematic trading compute and network infrastructure.
• Support large research computing and modeling workloads with resilient, auto-scaling clusters and efficient hardware utilization.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, including server downtime, network connectivity problems, and cloud outages.
• Monitor system performance and proactively address performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers, traders, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure the trading and research infrastructure meets their requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer or similar role in a fast-paced environment, ideally buy-side systematic trading.
• Production experience with cloud technologies, ideally AWS.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, including large auto-scaling clusters, and highly available services, as well as knowledge of related GitOps tools such as FluxCD or ArgoCD.
• Hands-on production experience with Linux, including knowledge of installations, configurations, and troubleshooting.
• Mastery of Terraform is required, and experience with automation tools such as Ansible.
• Practical working knowledge of UDP, TCP/IP, routing protocols, VPN technologies, and user-space kernel bypass networking.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a well-resourced startup environment.
• Opportunity to make a difference with your ideas, experience, and drive to find creative solutions.