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Senior DevOps Engineer

Quanta Search
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/5/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/5/2026
Our client  - a prosperous prop trading firm - helps the world price and manage risk. They have strong values, entrepreneurial spirit, and are committed to doing the right thing. Their
culture is highly collaborative across traders, quants, technologists and development teams
who work together to solve the toughest problems our markets have to offer. They strive to
make a positive impact on our industry, the lives of our employees, and the communities to
which we belong.
Are you excited by the idea of using your DevOps skills to passionately build and maintain low latency
trading systems? Would you like to help us optimize, standardize, and improve our DevOps tools and
processes? They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for the DevOps team. As a member of this emerging team you will work closely with DevOps team to design an infrastructure leveraging their Platform and processes.
As a DevOps team member you will work with other specialists, traders, and quants to design, develop,
deploy and operate their next generation DevOps Platform.
What You’ll Do
 Create, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines On Prem and Cloud Platforms
 Manage Kubernetes clusters and continuously improve deployment process of firm's applications
 Meet deadlines in support of a fast-moving release cycle
 Leverage new technologies and approaches with continuous improvement in mind
 Build monitoring systems and alerts for improved system insights and uptime/status evaluation
 Utilize modern orchestration tools (GitLab, Jfrog, Ansible Tower)
 Automate design patterns as infrastructure as code and implement and test the automation
 Coach, mentor, and provide feedback and guidance to other team members

What We’re Looking For
 Experience with Cloud resources including provisioning, monitoring and maintenance.
 Proven track record in creating, maintaining, enhancing application architecture
 Experience designing infrastructure footprint for applications
 Own delivery of long lasting solutions to team objectives based on new technologies, processes,
or systems
 Excellent understanding IT infrastructure, Public cloud, DevOps and Enterprise architecture
 Excellent written, listening, and verbal communication skills
 Knowledge of memory management challenges that exist in high throughput low latency trading
Applications (preferred)
 Familiar with high capacity/low latency infrastructure (Solace, multicast, Infiniband, Ethernet,
SolarFlare) (preferred)

Benefits
Benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus
healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a
variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.

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