Interactive Brokers
Senior Platform Engineer - Design
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States · Senior
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About the role
- We have been at the forefront of financial innovation for over four decades, known for our cutting-edge technology and client commitment.
- IBKR affiliates provide global electronic brokerage services around the clock on stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, and funds to clients in over 200 countries and territories.
- We serve individual investors and institutions, including financial advisors, hedge funds and introducing brokers.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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 -- 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.
- Provides direct support to technical and non-technical entities in order to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new deployments, upgrades, performance tuning and testing.
- Define requirements, perform research, evaluate vendors/solutions, design/implement solutions, and provide ongoing support for all technologies in scope. Provide simple but effective scalability, performance, and reliability.
Requirements
- In this role, the person is expected to have strong knowledge of program and scripting, system administration, operating systems, virtualization, networking, engineering, and administration.
- Proficiency in languages such as Ansible, Python, or Ruby.
- Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment tools like Jenkins, GitLab
- Experience with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Experience with system performance tuning and monitoring.
- Experience with load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs
- Proficiency in using monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios
- Experience with logging tools like Splunk, Elasticsearch etc..
Compensation
- Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus and stock grant
Company info
- Company Overview
- Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR) is a global financial services company headquartered in Greenwich, CT, USA, with offices in over 15 countries.
- Our advanced technology, competitive pricing, and global market help our clients to make the most of their investments.
- Barron's has recognized Interactive Brokers as the #1 online broker for six consecutive years.
- Join our dynamic, multi-national team and be a part of a company that simplifies and enhances financial opportunities using state-of-the-art technology.
- About INTERACTIVE BROKERS!
- This is Hybrid role (4 days in office /1 days remote)
- Interactive Brokers Group has been consistently at the forefront of trading innovation, starting with the invention of the first floor-based handheld computer in 1983.
- We pride ourselves on being primarily a technology company and challenging the status quo.
- We push boundaries to offer our clients the best trading platform with the most sophisticated features at the lowest cost.
- Software development is the lifeblood of our firm, and it shows in our stellar brokerage platform.
- Interactive Brokers is regularly recognized as a leader in the financial services industry.
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