Senior Systems Architect
Key Responsibilities- Platform Architecture & Engineering: Design, implement, and evolve highly available
infrastructure platforms that support mission-critical trading, market data, and financial
services workloads across on-premises and cloud environments. - OpenShift & Kubernetes: Architect, deploy, and maintain resilient Red Hat OpenShift
and Kubernetes platforms for low-latency, high-throughput production environments. - Linux Engineering: Provide senior-level engineering leadership for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) systems, including kernel tuning, performance optimization, patching
strategy, lifecycle management, and operational standards. - Market-Critical Infrastructure Services: Engineer and support core infrastructure
services essential to distributed financial systems, including LDAP, Kerberos, SSSD,
DNS, BIND, PowerDNS, NTP, Chrony, and PTP, with a focus on precision, availability,
and operational integrity. - Cloud & Hybrid Architecture: Design and operate secure AWS and Azure solutions,
including hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that satisfy financial industry requirements
for resilience, auditability, security, and business continuity. - Enterprise Hardware & Storage: Lead the design, support, and optimization of
infrastructure running on Dell PowerEdge servers and enterprise storage platforms, with
emphasis on performance, replication, capacity planning, and fault tolerance. - Automation & Platform Reliability: Develop and standardize infrastructure automation
using Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, Terraform, Pulumi, and scripting frameworks
to improve repeatability, speed, and operational consistency. - Developer & Release Platform Integration: Manage GitHub Enterprise and related
integrations, including SonarQube, Artifactory, and GitHub Actions runners, to enable
secure and scalable software delivery workflows. - Operational Resilience & Compliance: Ensure platforms are designed and operated to
meet the security, availability, resiliency, and regulatory expectations of financial
services and capital markets environments. - Architecture Leadership: Establish design standards, reference architectures, and
reusable engineering patterns that can be deployed consistently across multiple business
and technology domains. - Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with trading, application
development, production support, cybersecurity, network engineering, and infrastructure
teams to deliver stable, performant, and scalable solutions aligned with front-office and
enterprise priorities.
Qualifications- 10+ years of experience in Linux infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or
platform architecture roles. - 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and supporting Red Hat OpenShift and/or
Kubernetes in production. - Strong experience supporting infrastructure in New York financial markets, including
trading environments, market data platforms, exchange connectivity, or other latency-
sensitive capital markets systems. - Deep understanding of the operational demands of financial services environments,
including high availability, change control, resiliency, audit, and regulatory
considerations. - Proven expertise in RHEL engineering, systems performance tuning, and production
platform design. - Strong background in building standardized, reusable architecture patterns with a "design
once, use many" approach. - Demonstrated experience with AWS and Azure, including secure networking, storage
integration, identity controls, and hybrid deployment models. - Advanced knowledge of enterprise compute and storage infrastructure, including Dell
PowerEdge servers and Dell EMC storage platforms. - In-depth knowledge of authentication, DNS, and time synchronization services in
distributed, performance-sensitive environments. - Strong proficiency in infrastructure automation and scripting using tools such as Ansible,
Terraform, Pulumi, Bash, and Python. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage
effectively with engineering teams, operations teams, application owners, and business
leadership.
Preferred Experience- Experience supporting infrastructure for equities, options, futures, fixed income, or other
capital markets trading platforms. - Familiarity with low-latency infrastructure design, market hours operational support, and
production change controls in front-office environments. - Experience designing platforms that support regulatory, surveillance, disaster recovery,
and operational resiliency requirements in financial markets. - Background leading engineering standards, architectural reviews, and platform
modernization initiatives.
$200,000 - $300,000 a year
