DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.
Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.
We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.
Objectives of this role:
- Be a force for automation within the low latency network group at DRW
- Work on ways to automate and improve development and release processes for software and new hardware
- Lead the implementation of CI/CD pipelines to facilitate automated deployment of software and configuration changes.
- Work on ways to automate the lifecyle of DRW custom hardware
- (Build->provisioning->deployment->upgrade)
- Become the SME for our virtualised and containerized/cloud deployments
Day to Day responsibilities:
- Deploy updates and fixes and provide technical support for our DCIM (Netbox).
- Implement a maintenance strategy for all aspects of code and automation around our management and data stack.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using ansible/python and other tools
- Advocate and work with the operation team on best practices around automation
- Participate in the on-call rotation
- Support all our VM, cloud deployments, and bare metal deployments.
- Handle our automation issue backlog to identify and automate repetitive tasks
Required skills and qualifications
- At least 3 years of experience working as a DevOps specialist, a software developer or a software reliability engineer
- Strong Linux system administration skills
- Working knowledge of networking in hybrid cloud environments (Proxmox desired, VMWare and Terraform experience nice-to-have)
- Scripting and programming skills in Python or Go (ideally both)
- Experience using Ansible to manage infrastructure, preferably with experience in collections and custom modules.
- Experience with containerization tools such as Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift
- Experience with Continuous Integration practices
- Demonstrated knowledge of network communications (IPV4, subnetting)
Desired Personal Characteristics:
- Ability to learn quickly; a passion for new technology
- Self-motivated to continually expand skillset and improve supported systems
- Good communication skills and the ability to work in a team
- Demonstrated high level of ownership and accountability
- Ability to handle pressure and time constraints with composure
- Strong organizational skills, including planning, prioritization, and documentation
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