DevOps/SRE Intern

Summary

TransMarket Group (TMG) is a privately held global markets proprietary trading firm in Chicago that utilizes next-generation technology to manage risk in financial markets. As a DevOps/SRE intern, you will work on projects that span every level of the technology stack, focusing on automating and improving software development processes to enhance trading operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide day to day support of the firm’s proprietary software trading environment
• Work directly with our Traders, Trade Developers, Platform Developers, and IT Team to automate and maintain systems for deployment of trading software, configuration management, CI/CD and backtesting pipelines
• Work with end users to design monitoring and alerting systems that can be used to catch and diagnose issues in real time to help ensure the health of our trading environment
• Designing and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines for our trading platform components
• Building and maintaining infrastructure monitoring and alerting systems to help us quickly diagnose and resolve issues
• Collaborating with co-workers on designing applications and platform components to meet automation requirements
• Ensuring that software and infrastructure components are up-to-date and free of any security vulnerabilities
• Systematising and then documenting new and existing processes to help us tame our ever changing IT operations
• Working on automated provisioning of new servers and updating existing ones
• Working as part of an in-office team to collaborate directly with our experienced traders and technologists on brainstorming and implementing creative solutions to a wide range of problems

Skills

• Pursuing a BA/BS/MS Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related industry experience
• Must be fluent in Python (or any other programming language at the time of interview)
• Proficient with code collaboration tools (git, GitLab / GitHub / Bitbucket)
• Basics of container-based technology (Docker)
• Basic understanding of how infrastructure management tools work (Ansible or Puppet)
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Basic understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana
• Understanding of database design and administration
• Interest in financial markets and trading software

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Pursuing a BA/BS/MS Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related industry experience
• Must be fluent in Python (or any other programming language at the time of interview)
• Proficient with code collaboration tools (git, GitLab / GitHub / Bitbucket)
• Basics of container-based technology (Docker)
• Basic understanding of how infrastructure management tools work (Ansible or Puppet)
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Basic understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana

Nice to Haves

• Understanding of database design and administration
• Interest in financial markets and trading software

Benefits

• One of the most generous profit sharing programs in the industry
• More world-class benefits for our full-time employees and their families