Senior Platform Engineer - Design

About the role

The Platform engineering team at Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer - Design. This role involves defining, designing, and developing plans for installation/reconfiguration and overall management of systems to provide reliable, resilient, and secure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automated solutions leveraging cutting-edge tools, specifically focusing on infrastructure and containerization.
• Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs, including new deployments, upgrades, performance tuning, and scaling.
• Implement and utilize asset inventory, configuration management database, capacity management, performance management, resource optimization, and security (access control, authorization, and accounting) for all technologies in scope.
• Define requirements, perform research, evaluate vendors/solutions, design/implement solutions, and provide ongoing support for all technologies in scope.
• Drive consistent standardized solutions across IB for all hardware, software, configurations, and processes.
• Implement tools and processes for efficient and effective operational management of the environment, including change management, monitoring, alerting, incident handling, customer request handling, etc.
• Schedule and provide after-hours or weekend support when necessary to perform high-risk or planned downtime of IB’s data center systems for upgrades and maintenance.
• Participate in defining and executing on a roadmap of projects that continues to raise the bar through implementing innovative technology, tools, automation, and processes.
• Interact with internal teams to provide solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner.
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.

Requirements

• Programming and Scripting: Proficiency in languages such as Ansible, Python, or Ruby. Scripting skills in Bash, Perl, or similar languages.
• CID/CD Pipelines: Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment tools like Jenkins, GitLab.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Cloud Computing: Strong knowledge with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure.
• System Administration: Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix system administration. Experience with system performance tuning and monitoring.
• Networking: Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and other network protocols. Experience with load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs.
• Monitoring and Logging: Proficiency in using monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios. Experience with logging tools like Splunk, Elasticsearch etc.

Required Skills

• Self-motivated and able to handle tasks with minimal supervision.
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent collaboration and communication (verbal and written) skills.
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills.

Company Benefits

• Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus and stock grant.
• Retail 401(k) with competitive company match.
• Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Company paid medical healthcare premium.
• Wellness screenings and assessments, health coaches and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Paid time off and a generous parental leave policy.
• Daily company lunch allowance provided and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack.
• Corporate events including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities and company sports teams.
• Education reimbursement and learning opportunities.
• Modern offices with multi-monitor setups.