Cloud/DevOps Engineer
TradeStation is an online brokerage firm seeking to level the playing field for self-directed investors and traders, empowering them to claim their individual financial edge. At TradeStation, we're continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible, encouraging out-of-the-box thinking and relentless search for innovation. We offer a collaborative and flexible work environment, competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and a generous PTO policy.
POSITION SUMMARY:
We are looking for driven individuals to help us to create a unified product offering that can provide an accessible gateway into trading that will empower our customers to grow with TradeStation. This is a unique opportunity to rework TradeStation's proven core brokerage technology into a modern, and simple experience for current and future customers. This team will be building out a modern tech stack for the future of TradeStation's consumer-focused(retail) application products.
The engineer team works on developing software solutions to our infrastructure problems. Individuals who are experienced software engineers and cloud infrastructure experts will be building a software-defined infrastructure stack on top of Kubernetes. You will be building a platform for the development teams to build amazing experiences for our customers.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Understand, execute and embody Site Reliability Engineering principles
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure for development teams to utilize
- Build necessary guardrails to keep services operational and secure
- Build templates and tools to accelerate development
- Support teams to help them bring their applications to the cloud
- Build service monitoring, alerting, and incident response automation and procedures.
- Work in a DevOps environment, where development teams own both the development and operational responsibilities
- As a senior engineer, provide leadership and mentorship to other engineers
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
Required:
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes abstractions and underlying mechanisms
- Knowledge and proficiency in one or more modern general-purpose programming languages (e.g. Python, Golang, C#, Java)
- Advanced knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure on one or more cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience building cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Excellent communication skills to assist developers in building Cloud Native applications
- Experience with Continuous Integration tools (e.g. GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
Preferred:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Experience with distributed and scalable cloud architectures and techniques
- Experience managing Linux deployments in the cloud
- Experience securing cloud deployments
- Advanced understanding of network and internet technologies (e.g. DNS, TLS, TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSockets)
- Brokerage/trading domain knowledge and experience
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience
- Must have 5+ years of professional experience