What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Center Engineer - DASH position at ION?
The Role
We are seeking a Data Center Engineer with strong automation and infrastructure management experience to join the core technology operations team. The ideal candidate will have a proven background in supporting and automating datacenter environments in high-performance trading or capital markets settings.
You will be responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of our data center infrastructure, with a focus on improving scalability, reliability, and automation across systems.
Key Responsibilities
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
Learn more about us at https://iongroup.com/
We are seeking a Data Center Engineer with strong automation and infrastructure management experience to join the core technology operations team. The ideal candidate will have a proven background in supporting and automating datacenter environments in high-performance trading or capital markets settings.
You will be responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of our data center infrastructure, with a focus on improving scalability, reliability, and automation across systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and support physical and virtual infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting ultra-low latency trading systems.
- Design and implement infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Python scripting.
- Maintain and optimize systems for high availability, low latency, and fault tolerance.
- Collaborate with network, systems, and trading technology teams to ensure seamless platform operations.
- Perform capacity planning, monitoring, and performance tuning across production and disaster recovery environments.
- Develop monitoring and alerting solutions using tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues.
- Support change management and documentation best practices.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
- 5 years of experience as a Data Center, Systems, or Infrastructure Engineer.
- Strong automation skills with Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Experience with Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) environments.
- Understanding of low-latency networking, colocation facilities, and capital markets infrastructure.
- Familiarity with virtualization and containerization (VMware, KVM, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Excellent troubleshooting skills in production environments.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Experience in electronic trading infrastructure or market connectivity environments.
- Understanding of FIX, multicast, and financial exchange protocols.
- Experience managing infrastructure in colocation facilities such as Equinix or NY4/CH4.
- Exposure to DevOps pipelines and CI/CD workflows.
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
- Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.
- Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.
ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
Learn more about us at https://iongroup.com/