System Administrator Engineer - AlphaGen

JOB DESCRIPTION

Company develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a variety of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on exploiting market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a sustainable, global investment platform.
Technologists at Company research, design, code, test and deploy projects while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually intense. Our teams are lean and agile, which means rapid prototyping of products with immediate user feedback. We seek people who think in code, aspire to solve undiscovered computer science challenges and are motivated by being around like-minded people. In fact, of the 600 employees globally, approximately 500 of them code on a daily basis.
Company’s success is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Great ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess a mindset of continuous improvement. That’s a key ingredient in remaining a leader in any industry.  
Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an exceptional talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us create it. Our collective intelligence will drive us there.
 
The Role: We operate Company’s alpha production system that schedules and executes a large quantity of the firm’s alphas every day. Working with us you will maintain and operate software in a range of different technologies like relational database, Linux system, message broker, big data infrastructure, monitoring toolsets, container and orchestration, high performance grid computing. You will have chance to work with a large-scale distributed system with thousands of machines
Operate Company alpha production system, do on-call rotation, investigate and troubleshoot issues, response to incidents.
Build, test, deploy and maintain machines, software, tooling around alpha production system from open-sources to internal products, from scheduling/executing extreme resource intensive jobs to automation, monitoring, test & QA.
Integrate best-of-breed tools and technologies such as Kafka, Zookeeper, Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Gitlab, MySQL, Grafana, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch, HTCondor/Slurm
Work closely with other teams at Company to understand our users’ needs and act on it.  

JOB REQUIREMENT

A bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field
Solid understanding of Linux administration; fluent in Linux standard command line program
Experience in operating relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Experience in metrics and logs aggregation and analysis with a focus on performance optimization
Familiarity of Git and CI/CD concept
Ability to create scripts in Python
Understanding of container technology; experience of Docker and Kubernetes is big plus
Familiarity with technologies like Kafka, ElasticSearch, HTCondor/Slurm, Hadoop ecosystem is a plus
A great support attitude (our job is to make life easier for other teams!)
Strong written and verbal communication skills; Fluency in the English language
Ability to work independently with minimal direction 

WHAT'S ON OFFER

Day-off: 15 days (less than 2 years employee); 20 days (more than 2 years)
Health Insurance (AON – person and family)
Bonus: 2 – 4 times salary based on performance.
Company trip: once a year, monthly activities
Tea break, snacks, dinner order

CONTACT

PEGASI – IT Recruitment Consultancy | Email: recruit@pegasi.com.vn | Tel: +84 28 3622 8666
We are PEGASI – IT Recruitment Consultancy in Vietnam. If you are looking for new opportunity for your career path, kindly visit our website www.pegasi.com.vn for your reference. Thank you!

Job Summary

Company Type:

Product

Technical Skills:

System

Location:

Ho Chi Minh, Ha Noi - Viet Nam

Working Policy:

Job ID:

J00547

Status:

Close

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