The Site Reliability Engineer ensures the stability and reliability of trading systems, addresses system issues, and collaborates with various teams to improve system architecture.
The Site Reliability Engineering team at IMC Trading is focused on the scalability and reliability of our trading systems.
We are responsible for the operations of real-time systems, providing fast and effective incident response to keep IMC trading in the market. We work closely with traders and software developers to define short and long term improvements that make our trading systems easier to operate and more scalable. In the process, we build an understanding of IMC's trading strategies and software stack and apply automation that allows everyone to move fast, safely.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Your Skills and Experience:
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
We are responsible for the operations of real-time systems, providing fast and effective incident response to keep IMC trading in the market. We work closely with traders and software developers to define short and long term improvements that make our trading systems easier to operate and more scalable. In the process, we build an understanding of IMC's trading strategies and software stack and apply automation that allows everyone to move fast, safely.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Provide continuity, stability, and reliability of the Korean trading production environment.
- Ensure continuity of critical trading operations, prioritising resolution of system issues with a sense of urgency: you will be the first layer of response, and will need to triage and resolve / escalate issues under time pressure.
- Support and monitor trading systems, proactively addressing problems before they are noticed
- Partner with technology and trading teams to continually evolve and deploy system architecture
- Define and own improvements to our systems and make sure they are delivered, whether by the SRE team, our dev teams or trading teams
- Making sure that quick fixes are turned into lasting solutions
- Support and oversight on corporate infrastructure where required
- Liaise with vendors for IT related tasks and problem resolutions
Your Skills and Experience:
- Fluent in English both verbal and written is a must.
- Fluent in Korean both verbal and written is a strong advantage.
- Tertiary qualifications in engineering, computer science or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience, including 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Integration, or a related role
- 3+ years of hands-on professional experience with Linux operating systems, network configuration, containers and orchestration tools, including Kubernetes
- Proficiency in Python and Bash is required, experience with Go, Java and C++ are desirable
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Top Skills
Bash
C++
Go
Java
Kubernetes
Linux
Python
IMC Trading London, England Office
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