Radix Trading LLC · 4 months ago
HPC Systems Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expRadix Trading is seeking a seasoned HPC Systems Engineer with a passion for Linux, HPC systems and research infrastructure to join us. This role involves troubleshooting technical issues, optimizing workload efficiency, and collaborating with both internal teams and external partners. The ideal candidate will lead projects, develop automated solutions, and support research and enterprise infrastructure.
FinanceProperty ManagementTrading Platform
Responsibilities
Own monitoring and performance tuning across HPC applications, SLURM job scheduler, networking, storage, and hardware to optimize workload efficiency
Perform root-cause analysis to develop sustainable automated solutions
Support and troubleshoot alerts and errors with savvy communication skills to interact with external entities and internal counterparts
Keep up communication with new and existing external vendors on technical infrastructure work
Keep up communication with new and existing external business interfaces --- day-to-day operation, planning connectivity, and exchange upgrades
Oversee communication with others internally - project management across different functions to plan exchange upgrades, hardware refreshes, and other improvements/rollouts
Build out and support research, trading, and enterprise infrastructure
Qualification
Required
5+ years of HPC system administration/architecture including RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Systems
Experience with job scheduler and resource management tools such as SLURM, Moab, or Torque
Knowledge of network storage systems such as DDN, IBM SpectrumScale, NetApp, Weka, or Vast
Knowledge of parallel file systems such as Lustre or Spectrum Scale (GPFS)
Experience working with InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet
Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as xCAT, Ansible, Salt, and Terraform
Exposure to bare metal provisioning — including DHCP, DNS, PXE Boot
Competence in Python, able to edit and create scripts
Company
Radix Trading LLC
Radix Trading is a privately funded proprietary trading firm employing research-driven strategies on major electronic markets around the world.
51-200 employees
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