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DevOps Engineer

Point72

Full-time

New York, NY

Job description

EXPERIENCE

Experienced Professionals

LOCATION

New York

FOCUS

Systematic Investing | Network Engineering

BUSINESS

Cubist

Role:

We are looking for an Engineer to architect and deploy a large-scale DevOps solution tailored for a group of systematic trading teams.


Responsibilities:

  • Design and ensure a consistent environment exists across trading team environments (e.g. OS version, installed packages, mounts, SSH keys, bashrc, etc.)
  • Build and maintain external package management and tools (e.g. GCC, anaconda, etc.)
  • Design and maintain framework for production deployment. (e.g. GIT tagging and release, rollback, communication of changes, service deployment, tools to start-stop-restart services)
  • Production monitoring and alerting of applications and trading platform (e.g. Nagios scripts, resilient alerting, alerting API’s, web dashboards)
  • QA deployment
  • Design and implement continuous integration frameworks (e.g. Jenkins setup and customization, pre-commit GIT hooks, etc.)
  • Backups, data archiving, and data organization of applications, code and logs
  • Database administration and configuration (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, etc.)
  • Maintain and update the platform, ensuring its stability, robustness, and security
  • Design and implement Cluster/Cloud computing infrastructure framework that can be leveraged by every Cubist PM team
  • Troubleshoot and resolve any systems related issues and handle the release of code fixes and enhancements

Requirements:

  • Strong familiarity with Linux operating systems
  • 3+ years of experience with:
    • Reading and writing code and scripts in Python and Bash
    • Testing automation (e.g. Maven)
    • Build automation (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, Pipelines)
    • Release automation (e.g. GIT)
    • Configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet/Chef)
    • Monitoring, logging, reporting tools (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, ELK, MongoDB, Redis)
    • Managing backups, disaster recovery
    • Database admin, configuration and maintenance (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
    • Cloud compute deployment (e.g. AWS, Google)
    • Platform as a Service (PaaS) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
    • Automation and configuration management using Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
  • Ability to resolve problems in a timely, effective, and professional manner
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with Big Data capture and analytics pipelines is a plus
  • Experience with web server configuration and deployment is a plus
  • Commitment to the highest ethical standards


The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000-$250,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.