Site Reliability Engineer – VMware/Automation

SIG is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with a focus on Virtualization and related Automation skills to join our team. This is a great opportunity to leverage your VMware and scripting skills to enhance our growing environment with automation and tooling.

You will take part in evolving the design of our growing virtual infrastructure that supports 6000+ vms running trade, trade support, databases and back-office server workloads

In this role, you will:

• Be our subject matter expert as we continue to transition our physical infrastructure toward a more virtualized environment. This role will encompass both the architecture and design of our systems, as well as hands on implementation.
• A large part of your role will be around automation to build new tooling, automate manual processes, evolve our existing tools and automation that scales to keep up with our growing environment
• Assist with maintaining the enterprise virtualization environment (VMware), including troubleshooting, performance monitoring and optimization and capacity planning
• Partner with our development and infrastructure engineering teams to unravel issues and ensure a smooth integration.

What we're looking for

• Minimum of 2 years of experience managing and engineering VMware enterprise virtualization technologies required
• Hands on experience with intermediate/advanced automation using Powershell/powercli and/or Python is required
• Proficiency in enterprise monitoring tools such as Grafana, InfluxDB, graphite, Telegraf, ELK, Nagios a plus
• Proficient knowledge of Linux and/or Windows (Server 2012 R2 or higher) operating systems required
• Familiarity with kernel-level, network level (TCP/IP) and SAN technologies is required
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or similar technical field required

About SIG

SIG is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.

What we do

We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.