DevOps/SRE Intern
Transmarket Group Inc · Chicago, IL · 2 wk ago
EngineeringInternship
Responsibilities
- Provide day to day support of the firm’s proprietary software trading environment
- Work directly with our Traders, Trade Developers, Platform Developers, and IT Team to automate and maintain systems for deployment of trading software, configuration management, CI/CD and backtesting pipelines
- Work with end users to design monitoring and alerting systems that can be used to catch and diagnose issues in real time to help ensure the health of our trading environment
- Designing and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines for our trading platform components.
- Building and maintaining infrastructure monitoring and alerting systems to help us quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
- Collaborating with co-workers on designing applications and platform components to meet automation requirements.
- Ensuring that software and infrastructure components are up-to-date and free of any security vulnerabilities
- Systematising and then documenting new and existing processes to help us tame our ever changing IT operations
- Working on automated provisioning of new servers and updating existing ones
- Working as part of an in-office team to collaborate directly with our experienced traders and technologists on brainstorming and implementing creative solutions to a wide range of problems.
Requirements
- Pursuing a BA/BS/MS Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related industry experience
- Must be fluent in Python (or any other programming language at the time of interview).
- Proficient with code collaboration tools (git, GitLab / GitHub / Bitbucket)
- Basics of container-based technology (Docker)
- Basic understanding of how infrastructure management tools work (Ansible or Puppet)
- Basic understanding of CI/CD tools (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Basic understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana.
- Understanding of database design and administration. (Preferred)
- Interest in financial markets and trading software. (Preferred)
Benefits
- We offer one of the most generous profit sharing programs in the industry because we believe our employees should be able to take part in our rapid growth and success.
- We are proud to offer more world-class benefits for our full-time employees and their families.
About the role
TMG is a well-established and profitable business as a respected member of the global financial system for over 40 years, but also is like a startup because the potential of our group is at least one order of magnitude greater than what we are currently producing. We have an entrepreneurial culture and collaboratively develop our business with patience and discipline; we work hard, learn constantly, and relentlessly improve our expertise.