Systems Administrator - Mumbai, India - DA VINCI DERIVATIVES

Description

Mumbai

As Systems Administrator, you will be working closely with a fun team of highly skilled, smart and dedicated traders, developers and operation engineers in order to optimize and design a robust network infrastructure and to improve our live trading environment.

You'll work on optimising our trading infrastructure with the flexibility to be creative in your solution designs.

Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.

You will play a key role in setting up our Indian operations and making sure they perform at the highest level, working to achieve our goal of building one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world.

Responsibilities:

Maintain our low-latency Linux-based trading infrastructure
Support internal teams on hardware and software issues
Automate, standardise and document IT processes to optimise work structures
Manage data centre equipment e.g., server rack installation
Perform periodic audits of the environment, enforcing security and industry standards
Perform remote troubleshooting to diagnose production issues
Manage the life cycle of a server and build and deploy new solutions
Performance monitoring and system capacity management
Ensure the trading infrastructure is in a consistent and predictable state at the beginning of each trading day
Configure and install IT hardware as workstations e.g., typical desk set-up, installing screens, mouses, keyboards and Windows OS


Requirements:

Experience working in Windows and Linux (including systems networking stack)
Degree in computer science, engineering, ICT or a related field
Demonstrated experience in PC hardware troubleshooting
Strong knowledge of open-source tools, Ansible configuration management and automation
Strong communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical audience
Knowledge of Python and/or Shell scripting nice to have


Benefits:

Competitive base salary according to trading industry standards
Excellent variable pay based on the company's and your own performance
Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
Meals during work hours
Reimbursement of travel costs
Social events and after-work drinks