Senior DevOps Engineer

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) helps the world price and manage risk. We pride ourselves on our strong values, our entrepreneurial spirit, and our commitment to doing the right thing. Our culture is highly collaborative across traders, quants, technologists and development teams who work together to solve the toughest problems our markets have to offer. We strive to make a positive impact on our industry, the lives of our employees, and the communities to which we belong.

Are you excited by the idea of using your DevOps skills to passionately build and maintain low latency trading systems? Would you like to help us optimize, standardize, and improve our DevOps tools and processes? CTC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for our DevOps team. As a member of this emerging team you will work closely with DevOps team to design an infrastructure leveraging our Platform and processes.

As a DevOps team member you will work with other specialists, traders, and quants to design, develop, deploy and operate our next generation DevOps Platform.

What You’ll Do

• Create, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines On Prem and Cloud Platforms
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and continuously improve deployment process of our applications
• Meet deadlines in support of a fast-moving release cycle
• Leverage new technologies and approaches with continuous improvement in mind
• Build monitoring systems and alerts for improved system insights and uptime/status evaluation
• Utilize modern orchestration tools (GitLab, Jfrog, Ansible Tower)
• Automate design patterns as infrastructure as code and implement and test the automation
• Coach, mentor, and provide feedback and guidance to other team members

What We’re Looking For

• Experience with Cloud resources including provisioning, monitoring and maintenance.
• Proven track record in creating, maintaining, enhancing application architecture
• Experience designing infrastructure footprint for applications
• Own delivery of long lasting solutions to team objectives based on new technologies, processes, or systems
• Excellent understanding IT infrastructure, Public cloud, DevOps and Enterprise architecture
• Excellent written, listening, and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of memory management challenges that exist in high throughput low latency trading

Applications (preferred)

• Familiar with high capacity/low latency infrastructure (Solace, multicast, Infiniband, Ethernet, SolarFlare) (preferred)

Our Benefits

• We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, disability, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
• If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

This position cannot accommodate full-time remote work in Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Utah.

We also welcome employees in our Chicago or NYC office who would like to work in-office or in an in-office/remote hybrid.