System Engineer

Athena is looking for a tech genius to support and develop our systems infrastructure. This position requires extensive problem-solving skills and a consistent desire to outperform. You will join a team of highly skilled professionals who will depend on your knowledge and ability to manage our technology processes.

Duties:

  • Ownership of our systems infrastructure across multiple data centers, including hardware, networking (switches, routers and cross connects/private lines/VPN tunnels), OS, backend services (Kerberos, AFS, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, package repositories, etc), storage and security
  • Ensure availability and performance of Production trading systems during market hours
  • Improve stability and fault tolerance of our systems and network infrastructure
  • Enhance monitoring for our systems and network infrastructure, including writing custom checks
  • Establish and improve performance metrics and system usage gathering with trends
  • Develop scripts to batch and automate systems tasks
  • Maintain, create and distribute internal packages for our Linux systems to deploy common settings and tools
  • Perform database administration duties, including setup/configurations, data population, access control, monitoring, replication and backups, load balancing and automatic failover, tuning indexes and DB/OS-level parameters to optimize performance, etc
  • Maintain 150+ computers and network devices with assistance from “remote hands”
  • Work with exchanges and other service/telco providers on network connectivity, multicast routing, etc
  • Work with partners, developers, and users to improve our systems and plan for future needs
  • Stay informed and suggest use of best-in-class industry solutions and new technologies.
  • Expectation to understand our entire software stack, from kernel issues to application deployment.

Desired skills:

  • Extensive experience with Linux systems
  • Solid knowledge of some scripting languages (BASH, Perl, Ruby, etc)
  • DNS, SMTP, NFS, and Apache (with experience in some web programming languages such as PHP)
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP and some level of experience with Cisco or other enterprise-level network equipment
  • Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
  • Experience in customer support is a plus
  • Desire to be an important member of a team working together to achieve success
  • Debian / Ubuntu Linux
  • Kerberos, OpenAFS, and LDAP
  • Extensive experience using and managing 50+ node clusters
  • Development experience with at least one major programming language
  • A history of using and contributing to Free Software

Salary:

$100,000+/year

Benefits:

  • Opportunity to earn large bonus, based on performance
  • Four weeks of paid vacation
  • Complete health coverage including dental
  • 401(k) plan
  • Flexible spending account
  • Tuition and educational reimbursement
  • Direct access to senior personnel
  • Frequent company outings
  • Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit
If qualified and interested, please send an email to jobs+sye@athenacr.com with job title in the subject line.

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