Summary
Susquehanna International Group is a global quantitative trading firm focused on trading listed financial products and asset classes, particularly derivatives. The company is seeking a Virtualization Engineer to design and build scalable infrastructure for its trading platforms on OpenStack, automate deployments and maintenance, optimize virtualization and network performance, and develop monitoring and capacity-planning tools.
Responsibilities
- Automate and Evolve: Contribute to our library of home-grown tools, written primarily in Python and Bash, utilizing tools such as Jenkins to automate bare-metal and virtual server deployments, monitoring, and maintenance, allowing you to focus on performance related issues and projects
- Optimize: Tune virtualization environments for performance and network stacks for throughput and latency. Dive deep on root-cause analysis of systems issues. Anything is fair game if there's impact
- Collaborate: Work closely with stakeholders to understand business problems. Implement scalable solutions using SAN and high-speed networks
- Create: Design and implement our next-generation VM platform in Openstack which is slated to replace our 18000 guest VMWare environment
- Monitor: Effectively track and display cluster capacity to ensure optimal performance. Forecast and prepare for increased resource demands. Develop tools that best fit our needs for monitoring and capacity planning
Skills
- A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline
- 1-5 years of progressive experience building Linux based platforms at scale
- Familiarity with kernel-level and I/O subsystem tweaks and tools such as sysctl, strace, tcpdump, and netstat
- Recent hands-on experience with automation in Python, required
- In-depth experience in open-source-based virtualization such as Openstack, RedHat Openshift, kubevirt, or similar
Qualifications
Must Haves
- A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline
- 1-5 years of progressive experience building Linux based platforms at scale
- Familiarity with kernel-level and I/O subsystem tweaks and tools such as sysctl, strace, tcpdump, and netstat
- Recent hands-on experience with automation in Python, required
- In-depth experience in open-source-based virtualization such as Openstack, RedHat Openshift, kubevirt, or similar