Systems Engineer

Polar Operations LLC (d/b/a IMC Markets) is seeking a Systems Engineer in Chicago, IL. 

Your Core Responsibilities

• The Systems Engineer plays a critical role in maintaining and perfecting IMC’s trading systems.
• The Systems Engineer will work as part of a highly experienced team, facing the daily challenge of managing a critical, high-volume data flow in a complex trading environment distributed over a high-speed data infrastructure; will be exposed to many technical and trading challenges while ensuring high availability, stability, and performance of the end-to-end environment; focus on system administration; network troubleshooting; database tuning; development; release management; and performance engineering.
• Provide continuity and stability in IMC’s production environment and quick responses to production issues to minimize down time and ensure high availability and performance of our trading platform.
• Coordinate, prioritize, and plan the changes to our trading software thereby ensuring smooth exchange migrations, quick time to market for new features and software.
• Contribute towards improving the trading strategy as well as the trading infrastructure.
• Translate trading requests into concrete technical requirements; work with various focus teams in our organizations to generate innovative and scalable solutions; and implement those solutions to enhance our systems and processes on an ongoing basis.

 

Systems Engineer (Requisition ID: 4435239101)

 

Your Skills and Experience

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similarly analytical and technological field and one (1) year of experience in the offered position or a related occupation.

Must have one (1) year of experience in each of the following skill(s):

• Systems administration, network troubleshooting, release management and performance engineering with DevOps focus;
• Full-stack development in a CI/CD environment;
• Automating, deploying, running, and monitoring performance of custom applications; and
• Networking fundamentals, Python scripting and automation, and ansible.

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The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range$146,200—$197,800 USD

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.