Junior Automation & Monitoring Systems Engineer

Overview

SIG was founded in 1987, SIG has grown from an options trading firm on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange to one of the world’s largest privately held financial institutions. Today, with offices around the world, we trade almost every major financial product, and we are recognized for our disciplined and quantitative trading approach, and our leading-edge trading systems. We established our European headquarters in Dublin 20 years ago and now employ over 600 people here in Trading, Technology, Research, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and HR.

We offer fantastic internship opportunities in our Dublin office. This area is responsible for researching, designing and implementing the full trading capability for the European office, using leading edge hardware and software technologies. A SIG Internship allows you to get involved with development teams that are competing at a world-class level in the financial sector.

To remain a dominant force, SIG has continued to expand its team of highly talented Software and Systems Engineers. Over the past 7 years, the Dublin technology team has grown to over 300 employees, doubling in size. SIG’s continued success will – in large part – be based on the capabilities provided to our traders by our team.

Core Responsibilities

• Administration, Support and operation of complex IT systems and applications monitoring tools (elastic, splunk, Prometheus, grafana, check_mk, influx, graphite)
• Contributing developer on existing in-house solutions & systems
• Working with experienced engineers to create systems with a production end state in mind
• Troubleshooting and support of Non-Performant and failing tasks/jobs/playbooks
• Implementing automation tools and frameworks

Technical Skills

• A strong level of understanding of TCP/IP protocol suite
• Interest in Linux based operating systems
• Understanding of IT infrastructure architectures types
• Interest and experience in app containerization technologies
• Interest and experience in configuration management and automation tools
• A scripting language (python/powershell)
• Interest in cloud technologies a plus

Personal Skills

• Strong communication (verbal and written) – ability to convey technically complex subjects in a clear and concise manner
• Desire to learn and improve skills and knowledge
• Attention to detail – thorough in work carried out
• Interpersonal – friendly and approachable
• Teamwork – working together to meet deadlines
• Excellent time management, organization and prioritization skills
• Flexibility – all members of the team participate in early morning and on call support schedules