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High Frequency Infrastructure Engineer

Location: NYC
$200,000 - $500,000

Description:

HRG, on behalf of our client, is seeking an exceptional Infrastructure Engineer to join their Proprietary Trading Group as it expands it’s highly successful, fully automated computerized trading franchise across asset classes. The successful candidate will work with an existing team of highly technical engineers to design and build next generation high-throughput/low-latency trading infrastructures which are the life-blood of their complex distributed trading systems. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to work side by side with a highly talented team of software engineers, quantitative strategists, and traders on cutting-edge technology and sophisticated quantitative strategies.

Responsibilities:

  • Performance tuning and system analysis at all levels. Design, implementation, and monitoring of network infrastructure capable of transporting up to several million real-time messages per second with microsecond latency, Linux kernel level performance tuning, storage system throughput analysis, hardware performance benchmarking, and trading application latency measurement.
  • Administering extensive Linux-based research cluster with Grid management software
  • Supporting and monitoring Linux-based production cluster with over a thousand CPU cores with proprietary distributed system management software
  • Managing petabytes of research and production financial time series data using both centralized and highly distributed storage
  • Installation and customization of open source project management and productivity software
  • Working with technology and quantitative teams to maintain and expand proprietary tools that manage trading and research operations
  • Benchmarking next generation hardware and software and conducting feasibility studies for application to existing system

Highly competitive above market compensation tied to individual and business performance

Requirements:

  • BS, MS, or PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science or other technical fields
  • Previous experience in software engineering and/or operational support
  • Previous experience in systems integration and engineering, especially storage and network-related
  • High level of expertise in systems programming (Linux, database systems - Oracle, Sybase SQL, MySQL, SQLite)
  • High level of expertise in a variety of scripting languages (e.g., Perl, Awk, Bash)
  • Interest and aptitude in mathematics and finance is preferred
  • Familiarity with automated trading systems and financial industry is preferred
  • High level of responsibility and accountability
  • Ability to work independently in a high-pressure, time-critical environment
  • Must be a team player who works well with technologists, quantitative scientists, and business managers.

Job Reference #: JP075

The Hagan-Ricci Group
Phone: (212)-681-6333
http://www.hrg.net

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