Senior System Engineer - Prop Trading

My client is a leading global market-making, high-frequency trading firm, now in a phase of rapid international expansion, they are adding to their highly experienced technology team in Hong Kong. Seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to help steer their innovative and cutting-edge crypto platforms to the next level, you will be responsible for the following:

Responsibilities

1. Provide technical support activities for the production environment
2. Optimise the company infrastructure architecture in a cloud environment to achieve the best network performance
3. Debug kernel performance and resolve production issues in real time
4. Dive into difficult network or Linux related problems
5. Participate in infrastructure architecture design for office expansion purposes

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other technical discipline
2. 10 years of working experience in Linux production support and Cloud environment, with a good understanding of Linux system administration, troubleshooting and incident response
3. Excellent Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, scripting) experience, including Cloud infrastructure management (AWS/ALI/Oracle setup and configuration)
4. Multi-cloud platform experience (AWS, ALI, Oracle, Azure) would be advantageous
5. A good understanding of Networking (leased lines, latency optimisation) and monitoring and alerting systems (setup and enhancement)
6. Experience in OS kernel tuning (C-group, IRQ affinity, low-latency optimisation in Cloud/physical machines)
7. Documentation and knowledge transfer capabilities (JIRA/Confluence for project management and documentation would be a bonus)
8. Strong communication skills and stakeholder management skillset