Systems Support Engineer - Testing and Development Platforms
selby jenningsEvanston (IL)
Systems Support Engineer - Testing and Development Platforms
Posted 2 days ago
selby jenningsEvanston (IL)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Systems Support Engineer We're seeking a Systems Support Engineer to support the technology environments behind a fast-paced electronic trading business. You'll work closely with engineering and operations teams to improve the reliability of development and testing platforms used to build and validate trading systems.
What You'll Do:
- Support Linux-based development and UAT environments used by trading technology teams
- Improve consistency and reliability across testing and production environments
- Build monitoring, alerting, and automation to identify issues quickly
- Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and prevent recurring problems
- Automate operational workflows using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages
- Partner with developers, QA, release engineering, and production teams
- Help maintain stable environments in a fast-moving, high-availability trading organization What We're Looking For 2+ years of Linux systems or infrastructure experience
- Strong networking fundamentals, ideally including multicast
- Experience supporting distributed, high-availability systems
- Scripting or programming experience with Python, Bash, Go, Java, or similar
- Familiarity with tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or messaging technologies
- Experience with monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis
- Exposure to AI-assisted development and automation tools
- Ability to troubleshoot effectively in time-sensitive environments
- Electronic trading, financial markets, or other real-time systems experience is highly desirable
Technical degree or equivalent practical experience This is a hybrid role working out of the firms Chicago office, working onsite 3 days per week.
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