Infrastructure Engineer
Title: Experienced Infrastructure engineer
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mode: Fully On - site
My client is a global proprietary trading firm based in Amsterdam, and using their own capital they trade on global stock and derivatives exchanges. They count with over 80 employees across 2 main European offices.
As part of the team, you will take care of the trading infrastructure; high-end servers hosted in various data centres globally, close to each major exchange location, the workstations used by our traders, researchers, control staff and engineers, and the networks that interconnect them.
Appreciating that the success of our trading heavily depends on the performance of our infrastructure, you work carefully and diligently to ensure a lean, mean and well-monitored environment.
Responsibilities:
* Ordering, upgrading, supporting, and troubleshooting our IT infrastructure - from trading floor workstations to high-performance server clusters.
* Installing, configuring, and tuning operating systems (Linux and Windows), software, and custom tooling on workstations and servers.
* Managing and coordinating with a variety of external suppliers and service providers.
* Enhancing, automating, and expanding our monitoring, observability, and management tools to ensure maximum system up time and performance.
* Contributing to continuous improvement of processes, system architecture, and operational practices.
Requirements
* 5+ years of professional experience managing high-performance infrastructure in demanding environments.
* Windows and Linux experience - with proven ability in high-performance troubleshooting, tuning, and optimisation.
* Networking - Cisco CCNA or equivalent knowledge.
* High-performance server and workstation hardware, OS
* VoIP, Virtualization, Active Directory, LDAP, PostgreSQL, Workspace and collaboration tools
* Monitoring, Optimization, Git
* Strong networking fundamentals and diagnostic skills for latency-sensitive environments.
* An automation-first mindset - with skills in scripting and automation tools (Bash, Python)
* Data center experience - installing, patching, relocating equipment, and supervising work in remote facilities
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