HFT – Linux platform performance engineer (open to remote) Permanent

Responsibilities

As part of the Infrastructure team, you will:

• Lead the on-prem and cloud-based server fleet.
• Tuning and optimization of both the OS and hardware.
• Work closely with the various developer teams to ensure applications run optimally.
• Automate as much as possible.
• Improve the current monitoring stack.

Skills and Knowledge Requirements

As a Platform/Linux performance engineer, you should be able to:

• Advanced knowledge of Linux (CentOS/RHEL 7x,8x preferred), focussed on automation, systems engineer and performance tuning.
• Performance benchmarking.
• Knowledge of Low latency networking, onload (Solarflare/Xilinx).
• Experience with system tuning tools like perf.
• Fluency with scripting languages (bash, python, ruby).
• Working knowledge of the network protocols.
• Experience with configuration management tools (puppet, ansible, chef).

Bonus:

• Configuration management tools like Puppet/Chef/Ansible.
• Google Cloud Platform.
• C++ toolchain (gcc, clang, cmake, conan).