Responsibilities

Work closely with the infrastructure team to manage and maintain the infrastructure of the tastytrade family of companies, specifically:

• Manage and troubleshoot issues on bare metal and virtualized installations of Linux across multiple deployment infrastructures.

• Manage and troubleshoot issues with standard Linux applications.

• Research and implement initial configuration of new software to support business and / or engineering goals.

• Provision new hosts (physical and virtual) as needed.

• Maintain updated, appropriately hardened base images of internally approved LTS OS installations.

• Work in partnership with the DevOps engineers to design repeatable deployments and configurations of software or operating systems to meet business and / or engineering goals.

• Manage and maintain supporting systems (Jenkins, Logstash, Kibana, Sensu, Sentry, etc.) used by the DevOps team and the engineering team.

• Support an existing set of environments (integration, staging, production, etc.) in a capacity of system administration, networking, troubleshooting and configuration.

• Work closely with a development and engineering team to build and document new and existing infrastructure.

• Handle on-call support on a rotating basis.

• Manage market data infrastructure as needed.

• Assist security teams in implementing and maintaining security infrastructure.

• Work closely with the DevOps team to ensure appropriate operating system upgrades and patches are rolled out in a timely fashion.

Prerequisites

• Substantial experience with Debian / Ubuntu and CentOS / RHEL

• Experience working in a virtualized environment

• Experience administering cloud and / or virtual environments (AWS,  Azure or GCP / KVM, VMWare, or Xen)

• Experience administering standard Linux network management tools: BIND, ISC DHCP, etc.

• Experience with automated provisioning technology (PXE, kickstart, etc.)

• Experience configuring and troubleshooting Linux networking

• Proficiency in shell scripting

• Experience with configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, or Ansible is preferred but not required

• Experience working with MySQL or Postgres is preferred but not required

• Experience designing high-availability Linux software deployments is preferred but not required

• You must enjoy operating in a mission critical environment

• You must work well with other team members

• You must be able to make good critical decisions balancing technology, frameworks, strategy and practical constraints

• You must be able to learn quickly in areas where you don't have deep expertise