Senior Platform Engineer
Millennium's Infrastructure organization is dedicated to designing, engineering, supporting, and managing a robust server estate, systems virtualization, and core enterprise services. We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a highly specialized team of exceptionally talented yet refreshingly humble individuals from diverse disciplines. We believe that delivering exceptional services requires the ability to make meaningful changes across the entire stack. Our mission is to solve real business challenges, reduce operational complexities, and foster a collaborative, team-driven environment that promotes mutual growth and success.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions. This role requires deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: High-Performance Computing (HPC), Kubernetes, and Cloud platforms (particularly Google Cloud Platform - GCP). The focus will be on solving complex engineering problems, optimizing system performance, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of the infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
Proactively understand internal clients’ needs and effectively communicate them to leadership at both regional and global levels. Own the roadmap and implementation of large components of production infrastructure.
Ensure the production reliability of the firm’s Linux-based research and trading platform as part of a globally distributed engineering team.
Provide rapid emergency response to production infrastructure issues.
Identify risks, develop contingency plans, and implement solutions to mitigate them.
Develop and enhance the observability platform to monitor the performance and health of critical computing environments.
Participate in occasional (monthly) on-call rotations and support on-call staff during their shifts.
Contribute to organizational knowledge through documentation, education, and writing maintainable code. Provide guidance to the team in your subject matter expertise.
Qualifications/Skills: We are looking for individuals with experience in at least some of the following areas:
6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or other infrastructure engineering roles, preferably within the financial industry.
Expert level understanding and at-scale hands-on experience with one or more of the following (preferably in a financial institution):
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HPC infrastructure design, deployment and operations
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Kubernetes or other container orchestration technology
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Cloud, especially GCP, at an enterprise scale