DevOps/SRE Intern

The role

You will work on projects spanning the technology stack to automate building, testing, and deployment of trading applications. You will also design back-office data flows and implement monitoring and alerting systems.

What you will do

• Provide day to day support of the firm's proprietary software trading environment
• Automate and maintain systems for deployment of trading software, configuration management, CI/CD and backtesting pipelines
• Design monitoring and alerting systems to catch and diagnose issues in real time
• Design and maintain continuous delivery pipelines for trading platform components
• Build and maintain infrastructure monitoring and alerting systems
• Collaborate with co-workers on designing applications and platform components to meet automation requirements
• Ensure software and infrastructure components are up-to-date and free of security vulnerabilities
• Systematise and document new and existing processes
• Work on automated provisioning of new servers and updating existing ones
• Work as part of an in-office team to brainstorm and implement creative solutions

Required qualifications

• Pursuing a BA/BS/MS Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related industry experience
• Must be fluent in Python (or any other programming language at the time of interview)
• Proficient with code collaboration tools (git, GitLab / GitHub / Bitbucket)
• Basics of container-based technology (Docker)
• Basic understanding of how infrastructure management tools work (Ansible or Puppet)
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Basic understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana

Nice to have

• Understanding of database design and administration
• Interest in financial markets and trading software

Benefits

• Generous profit sharing programs

About the company

TransMarket Group (TMG) is a privately held global markets proprietary trading firm in Chicago. It has an entrepreneurial culture and uses next-generation technology to manage risk in financial markets.