Systems Administrator

Job Responsibilities:

-Troubleshoot and monitor proprietary frameworks/code and third-party systems

-Manage access credentials to a variety of applications and trading systems

-Exhibit cautious and responsible use of sysadmin privileges

-Make infrequent trips to our Austin and Chicago datacenters to maintain hardware

-Create, document, and enforce backup procedures and failovers in all systems

-Run drills/trials and improve failure tolerances across infrastructure

-Assist with onboarding new hires to in-house systems and infrastructure

-Respond to issues and requests from the Operations and Technical teams

Qualifications:

-5+ years of experience in a Linux-based admin role, or equivalent

-Attention to detail in a fast-paced environment

-Ability to respond to occasional off-hour emergencies

-Excellent organizational skills and strong written and verbal communication skills

-Exceptional capability debugging and solving complex issues related to both hardware, low level software, and networking

-Ability to perform Bash and Python scripting

-Basic networking tool experience (ping, ifconfig, telnet, wireshark, nmcli)

-Knowledge of network architecture is a plus

-Experience with the following technologies:

Computer hardware (such as Supermicro and Dell Servers)

Networking hardware

Fedora Linux

FreeIPA, OpenLDAP, OpenVPN

DNS

ZFS

Gitea, Zulip

GRUB, PXE

*Note: You are not expected to know every technology listed but experience in all is a plus

Please Apply If:

-You run a home lab for fun and enjoy the sound of server fans

-You are a problem solver who wants to understand the intricacies of a complex system

-You are a distro hopper and can discuss the nuances of your preferred distribution

-You are the type of person to remember the IP address of a certain machine on your network

-You love to see nicely organized, color-coded, and labeled cables

-Friends and family call you for tech support and you fix their problems

Don't Apply If:

-You are afraid of seeing a terminal on boot

-You have never spec’d out or built a computer from parts

-You are made nervous by the letters TCP/IP

-You have never heard of DNS

-You are not proficient in bash or python

-You do not have 5 years of Linux admin experience or something very cool to demonstrate your capabilities otherwise

To Apply:

Write a program in C++ that takes in a file as input and reverses every line and puts it in a different file. Try to do this with as little memory footprint as possible and as fast as possible.

Attach the file as a .txt in the "Additional Files" section below.