Systems Engineer

The Company

A leading global financial technology firm providing liquidity and innovative trading solutions across global financial markets. Its technology platform operates at significant scale, supporting trading across thousands of securities and hundreds of venues worldwide.

The firm is highly technology-driven, with a strong focus on performance, automation and building infrastructure capable of supporting demanding, low-latency trading environments.

The Role

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join the infrastructure engineering team in Singapore.

You will be responsible for designing, building and supporting high-performance Linux servers across global datacentres and offices. These systems are highly automated and finely tuned to meet the demands of a sophisticated global trading platform.

This is a hands-on engineering position for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems, optimising system performance and working closely with engineers across the organisation.

Day-to-day:

• Analyse, diagnose and resolve complex Linux-based server issues
• Create, test, deploy and maintain packages, batch files and scripts within the operating system environment
• Identify opportunities to optimise infrastructure, reduce latency and improve efficiency
• Manage infrastructure configuration, changes and deployment requests
• Work closely with internal technology teams and external vendors to deliver effective technical solutions
• Contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy and capacity planning
• Support the ongoing reliability and performance of production infrastructure
• Balance day-to-day production support with longer-term infrastructure projects

Requirements:

• Years of experience in Linux/Unix systems administration
• Experience with Linux kernel tuning
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and network topology
• Strong scripting ability, particularly Python
• Experience with Kickstart, Ansible and Git
• Experience with BIOS configuration
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, proactive and well organised
• Comfortable working in an environment with continually shifting priorities
• Ability to manage multiple projects while supporting production infrastructure and coordinating with multiple teams and vendors

(Desirable Experience, not essential)

• MySQL or PostgreSQL
• HTCondor / HTC clusters
• TeamCity
• Keycloak
• Atlassian suite