Systems Engineer

Polar Operations LLC (d/b/a IMC Markets) is seeking a Systems Engineer in Chicago, IL. 

Your Core Responsibilities

• The Systems Engineer plays a critical role in maintaining and perfecting IMC’s trading systems.
• The Systems Engineer will work as part of a highly experienced team, facing the daily challenge of managing a critical, high-volume data flow in a complex trading environment distributed over a high-speed data infrastructure; will be exposed to many technical and trading challenges while ensuring high availability, stability, and performance of the end-to-end environment; focus on system administration; network troubleshooting; database tuning; development; release management; and performance engineering.
• Provide continuity and stability in IMC’s production environment and quick responses to production issues to minimize down time and ensure high availability and performance of our trading platform.
• Coordinate, prioritize, and plan the changes to our trading software thereby ensuring smooth exchange migrations, quick time to market for new features and software.
• Contribute towards improving the trading strategy as well as the trading infrastructure.
• Translate trading requests into concrete technical requirements; work with various focus teams in our organizations to generate innovative and scalable solutions; and implement those solutions to enhance our systems and processes on an ongoing basis.

 

Systems Engineer (Requisition ID: 4435239101)

 

Your Skills and Experience

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similarly analytical and technological field and one (1) year of experience in the offered position or a related occupation.

Must have one (1) year of experience in each of the following skill(s):

• Systems administration, network troubleshooting, release management and performance engineering with DevOps focus;
• Full-stack development in a CI/CD environment;
• Automating, deploying, running, and monitoring performance of custom applications; and
• Networking fundamentals, Python scripting and automation, and ansible.

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