Systems Engineer
Tower Research Capital
Overview
In this role you will maintain and enhance Tower’s Linux-based trading infrastructure, ensuring high availability and low-latency performance in on-prem, hosted data centers and public clouds. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to automate provisioning and monitoring, optimize cloud deployments, and support 24/7 trading operations. This is a hands-on position at a global, innovative firm where engineering excellence powers a world-class trading platform.
Pay / Benefits- Generous paid time off
- Hybrid working opportunities
- Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily
- Wellness reimbursements
- Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Maintain, support and enhance the firm's trading Linux infrastructure
- Provide day-to-day Linux environment support including incident response and performance troubleshooting
- Develop and refine automation tooling for provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of thousands of Linux servers
- Manage core services (DHCP, LDAP, DNS, NFS) across on‑prem, hosted data centers and public clouds
- Review and design trading system deployments in the Cloud with Cloud Architecture team
- Improve performance, resilience, availability, and observability of Cloud environments
- Contribute to complex brownfield Cloud environments hosting 24/7 trading infrastructure optimized for low latency and real-time processing
- Participate in rotational on-call schedule including mornings and weekends
- 5+ years of experience in maintenance, operation, and administration of advanced Linux environments
- Strong knowledge of Linux internals and OS principles
- Competence in server-side networking and protocols
- Experience developing automation and monitoring tools
- Proficiency with configuration management and provisioning/orchestration tools (Ansible)
- Strong Python knowledge and expert Bash scripting for Linux automation
- Understanding of Linux config management, source control, CI/CD, and automated deployment
- Experience improving infrastructure automation for Cloud platforms in fast-paced trading environments
- Strong problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills
- Comfort using AI in day-to-day activities
- Strong expertise in AWS compute, networking and storage services (EC2, ENA, VPC, ELB, Direct Connect, S3, EBS) in low-latency contexts
- Open to working in high-pressure, 24/7 trading environments
- strong communication
- methodical problem solving
- ownership and responsibility
- Linux administration and internals
- Server-side networking
- Automation and monitoring tooling
Reference: WJ-747_30161155