System Administrator Engineer

Job summary

Our client operate a production system that schedules and executes a large quantity of the firm’s alphas every day. Working with our client, you will maintain and operate software in a range of different technologies like a relational database, Linux system, message broker, big data infrastructure, monitoring toolsets, container and orchestration, high-performance grid computing. You will have a chance to work with a large-scale distributed system with thousands of machines

• Operate alpha production system, do on-call rotation, investigate and troubleshoot issues, respond to incidents.
• Build, test, deploy and maintain machines, software, tooling around alpha production system from open-sources to internal products, from scheduling/executing extreme resource-intensive jobs to automation, monitoring, test & QA.
• Integrate best-of-breed tools and technologies such as Kafka, Zookeeper, Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Gitlab, MySQL, Grafana, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch, HTCondor/Slurm
• Work closely with other teams to understand our users’ needs and act on them. 

Job Responsibilities

• Operate alpha production system, do on-call rotation, investigate and troubleshoot issues, respond to incidents.
• Build, test, deploy and maintain machines, software, tooling around alpha production system from open-sources to internal products, from scheduling/executing extreme resource-intensive jobs to automation, monitoring, test & QA.
• Integrate best-of-breed tools and technologies such as Kafka, Zookeeper, Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Gitlab, MySQL, Grafana, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch, HTCondor/Slurm
• Work closely with other teams to understand our users’ needs and act on them.

Experience requirements

• Solid understanding of Linux administration; fluent in Linux standard command-line program
• Experience in operating relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience in metrics and logs aggregation and analysis with a focus on performance optimization
• The familiarity of Git and CI/CD concept
• Ability to create scripts in Python
• Understanding of container technology; experience of Docker and Kubernetes is big plus
• Familiarity with technologies like Kafka, ElasticSearch, HTCondor/Slurm, Hadoop ecosystem is a plus
• A great support attitude (our job is to make life easier for other teams!)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; Fluency in the English language
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction

Education requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field

Contact Person

•   Viet Long Nguyen
•  Adecco