About Da Vinci
Da Vinci is a proprietary trading house founded in 2015 and specialised in solving market inefficiencies, identifying opportunities based on volatility arbitrage strategies and providing liquidity to the markets. We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market, Amsterdam, and we have offices in Miami and Mumbai. Today, we trade on the most prominent exchanges across South America, Asia and the US. Our vision is set on sustainable growth and collaboration across teams and offices.
We always keep our work smart and innovative and are building a team of trading enthusiasts. The key to our success is hiring not only intelligent but inventive, laser-focused and highly efficient individuals. Across all departments; trading, quantitative research and development alike, Da Vinci is made up some of the sharpest minds and most passionate players in the industry. We are non-hierarchical and support employees in exploring their interests and strengths, placing no limit on personal growth.
About the Role
As a Linux System Administrator, you will be working closely with a fun team of highly skilled traders and software engineers on projects to improve our live trading environment. You’ll work on optimising our trading infrastructure with the flexibility to be creative in your solution designs.
Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain our low-latency Linux-based trading infrastructure
- Support internal teams on hardware and software issues
- Automate, standardize and document IT processes to optimize work structures
- Manage data center equipment e.g., server rack installation
- Perform periodic audits of the environment, enforcing security and industry standards
- Perform remote troubleshooting to diagnose production issues
- Manage the life cycle of a server and build and deploy new solutions
- Performance monitoring and system capacity management
- Ensure the trading infrastructure is in a consistent and predictable state at the beginning of each trading day
- Configure and install IT hardware as workstations e.g., typical desk set-up, installing screens, mouses, keyboards and Windows OS
Requirements:
- Experience working in Linux (Experience with Windows is a plus)
- Degree in computer science, engineering, information technology or a related field
- Experience in servers and storage systems configuration and troubleshooting
- Ability to manage multiple projects that span multiple teams to successful completion
- Strong knowledge of open-source tools, Ansible configuration management and automation
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical audience
- Knowledge of Python and/or Shell scripting
- Experience in Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure) is a plus
Benefits:
- An opportunity to work in a high-tech, driven environment
- A base salary of EUR 70K to 100K (based on experience)
- Excellent variable pay and growth opportunities
- A relocation package when moving from abroad, including a relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support
- Meals during work hours
- Social events and after-work drinks
- Reimbursement of travel costs
- Sponsored gym membership
- In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)
