Platform Operations Engineer

• Company Interactive Brokers
• No. of Openings 10+
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type on-site

Job Description :

Job Description

As a member of our Operations team, the Platform Operations Engineer will help in addressing operational needs of a mixed on-premises and cloud environment.

In this role, the person is expected to have strong background in Linux System Administration and Operations. They have excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. The person should have a passion for automation and learning new skills and technologies.

Responsibilities

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

• Strong operational skills, with ability to work with end users to understand requirements and resolve trouble tickets.
• Drive consistent standardized solutions across IB for all hardware, software, configurations, and processes.
• Implement tools and processes for efficient and effective operational management of the environment -- change management, monitoring, alerting, etc
• Schedule and provide after-hours or weekend support when necessary, to perform high-risk or planned downtime of IB’s data centre systems for upgrades and maintenance.
• Participate in permanently eliminating issues through automation.
• Interact with internal teams to provide solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in applicable field or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of Linux System Administration or Operations
• Strong background in Linux administration. Understanding of core Linux concepts and technologies (LVM, systemd, memory/cpu/network/disk management and troubleshooting, Bash scripting)
• Experience with storage protocols and technologies such as NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel
• Able to handle pressure during outages and systematically resolving issues
• Experience being tasked outside their training, willing to take on and learn new technologies
• Good understanding of host and network security concepts
• Understanding of standard services and protocols (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SSH, SNMP)
• Understanding of current monitoring concepts and tools (Prometheus, Nagios, Grafana etc)

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with AWS or another cloud provider and familiarity with DevOps tools.