Job Description

Dolat Capital, a financial trading firm, seeks a skilled Senior Linux Support Engineer to join our Systems team. The Linux Support Engineer will help oversee the maintenance of over 400 servers while supporting more than 50 users. Dolat has many high-capacity, low-latency, direct private lines between our sites, and we use the latest high-performance hardware. Dolat's Trading Support Engineers are the gatekeepers of the production trading environment. We firmly believe in balancing a safe, orderly production environment with profitability and sustainable growth. We are looking for engineers who share this vision, and who eschew complexity in favor of simplicity. Dolat successfully invests in a number of different strategies in different asset classes. We have an extremely high-performance network that processes huge amounts of financial information in real time. Dolat's Mumbai's office composes of a talented group of quantitative research analysts and programmers

Responsibilities

Debugging dropped packets, whether at the network, NIC, OS, or application layers

Troubleshooting kernel panics and system hangs

Analyzing performance issues

Fine-tuning processes to run with the least jitter

Directing support for our continuously active servers, lines, and low-latency network

Installing, configuring, and deploying fully-distributed Red Hat Linux systems

Taking a role in researching, testing, recommending, implementing, and maintaining cutting- edge, ultra low-latency systems and network technologies

Participating in an on-call rotation

Deploy, monitor, and configure a complex suite of trading applications

Provide exceptional trade support to a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market making environment

Provide skilled hands-on technical expertise to trading, risk, middle office, and compliance teams across Windows and Linux platforms

Develop fluency with existing systems, infrastructure, and procedures and proactively improve them

Intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control

Script against configuration files, databases, and logs

Gather and analyze metrics to improve and report on the performance and efficiency of trading systems

Work in tandem with development to ensure the health and stability of the production trading environment

Continually drive production systems toward cleanliness, simplicity, and reliability

Participate in deep dive investigations necessary in troubleshooting and improving low latency systems

Track and solve issues as part of a fast-paced results driven set of IT teams

Solving problems by providing level one and level two support for our reporting and tools systems

Testing and releasing the tools to production

Monitoring daily reports and run of scheduled jobs

Monitoring and reporting on the status and health of our systems

Serving as the primary technical contact for compliance and risk managers

Contributing to the design and implementation of the support system to enhance reliability and self-correction

Provides support for front office, middle office and back office applications and users

Facilitates communication between trading, infrastructure and software development teams

Supports proprietary and third party trading systems and infrastructure

Contributes to the engineering efforts to automate processes, monitor systems and improve software management on both Microsoft and Unix platforms.

Communicates directly with exchanges, clearing members and ISV's to resolve trading issues

Works with software development teams to improve, monitor and maintain internal systems

Maintain enterprise scheduling, release and monitoring systems

Provide support for local and co-located datacenters Qualifications If you have not used the following commands, please do not apply: vmstat, top, uname, ps, emacs/vi, svn, git, make, rpm, ping, tcpdump, wireshark, nfsstat, traceroute.

A technical degree from an accredited university (B.E/B.Tech only)

Knowledge in Linux Kernel tuning, configuration management with cfengine, Linux network performance management/troubleshooting, hardware testing/integration and IT security

Knowledge of maintaining Cisco, Windows, and PC hardware

Fluency in at least one scripting/coding language

Hands-on knowledge of SSH, iptables administration, NFS, DNS, DHCP, and LDAP

Knowledge with Open Source applications to build enterprise-level systems (i.e., Nagios, SmokePing, MRTG, etc.)

Proven troubleshooting

Expertise in maintaining Cisco ports/VLANs/dot1.x settings in any office environment

Ability to read and interpret English-language technical documents

A high aptitude for learning and employing appropriate technologies

Solid scripting skills

Software development skills are a plus but not required

SQL and database administration skills are preferred

Solid understanding of operating systems

Solid understanding of network architectures

Knowledge of trading exchanges and financial instruments is not required

Strong scripting skills in Perl, Python, and Bash or shell

Knowledge of Linux along with REDHAT Certification.

Knowledge of SQL and use of databases

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities

The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

Excellent communication skills and fluency in English

Must be able to demonstrate technical problem solving skills

Excellent documentation and knowledge management skills

Experience with scripting tools such as Power Shell, Python, and /or Bash is a plus

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹400,000.00 - ₹600,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Flexible schedule Health insurance Provident Fund Work from home
Work Location: In person