ROLE
We are looking for an Engineer to architect and deploy a large-scale DevOps solution tailored for a group of systematic trading teams.
RESPONSIBILTIES
- Design and ensure a consistent environment exists across trading team environments (e.g. OS version, installed packages, mounts, SSH keys, bashrc, etc.)
- Build and maintain external package management and tools (e.g. GCC, anaconda, etc.)
- Design and maintain framework for production deployment. (e.g. GIT tagging and release, rollback, communication of changes, service deployment, tools to start-stop-restart services)
- Production monitoring and alerting of applications and trading platform (e.g. Nagios scripts, resilient alerting, alerting API’s, web dashboards)
- QA deployment
- Design and implement continuous integration frameworks (e.g. Jenkins setup and customization, pre-commit GIT hooks, etc.)
- Backups, data archiving, and data organization of applications, code and logs
- Database administration and configuration (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, etc.)
- Maintain and update the platform, ensuring its stability, robustness, and security
- Design and implement Cluster/Cloud computing infrastructure framework that can be leveraged by every Cubist PM team
- Troubleshoot and resolve any systems related issues and handle the release of code fixes and enhancements
REQUIREMENTS
- Strong familiarity with Linux operating systems
- 3+ years of experience with:
- Reading and writing code and scripts in Python and Bash
- Testing automation (e.g. Maven)
- Build automation (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, Pipelines)
- Release automation (e.g. GIT)
- Configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet/Chef)
- Monitoring, logging, reporting tools (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, ELK, MongoDB, Redis)
- Managing backups, disaster recovery
- Database admin, configuration and maintenance (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Cloud compute deployment (e.g. AWS, Google)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Automation and configuration management using Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
- Ability to resolve problems in a timely, effective, and professional manner
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Big Data capture and analytics pipelines is a plus
- Experience with web server configuration and deployment is a plus
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
Top Skills
What We Do
Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here.
