Position: Platform Compute and Storage Specialist
Business Area: Infrastructure
Company Overview
Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With main investment offices in New York, London and Singapore, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.
Job Summary:
Squarepoint is looking for a Platform Compute and Storage (PCS) Specialist to join our growing global team. The candidate will work alongside our global team to design, build, and maintain both compute and storage services that are continuously scaling to support the growth of the company. This role requires in depth knowledge of Linux platforms and distributed storage systems, including performance optimization and capacity management. This candidate will ideally have experience with bare metal, hypervisors, containers, and public cloud platforms. Your day to day could consist of hardware and software installation and configuration, monitoring and alerting improvements and configurations, automation and tool development, and much more.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage systems efficiently at scale through standardization, automation, testing, and in depth monitoring
- Enforce development standards for source control, testing, and continuous integration for infrastructure, OS, patches, and configuration management
- Manage a distributed compute environment and several petabyte-scale storage systems
- Install, manage, and monitor the Linux operating system (RHEL based)
- Troubleshoot hardware and software issues throughout the stack
- Work with business owners to regularly re-prioritize the book of work, while delivering both tactical and long term objectives
Qualifications/Skills Desired:
- 5+ years of experience in a technology infrastructure role including Linux administration
- Experience working with configuration management driven administration using tools such as Chef or Ansible
- Experience with distributed storage and different storage protocols (NFS, GPFS, WEKA)
- Proficient in Python, or other high level language (Go, Rust, etc)
- Experience with modern software development: version control, agile development, ci/cd
- Observability in distributed systems (ex. Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Experience working with various cloud providers (AWS and GCP).
- Eagerness to continuously learn new technologies and develop with us,
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced, adaptable, and pressured environment.
- Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline or related area.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
