Infrastructure Engineer

Jump Trading

Full Time

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

11 months ago

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Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incentivizing collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our Trading Infrastructure organization, a global team of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latency wide area networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

What You’ll Do:

Deliver maximum up-time to our customers by ensuring the data center infrastructure is operating as optimally as possible through best practice design related to power, cooling, data cabling, and risk averse change processes
Perform capacity planning activities within the Data Center, including floor, space, power, cooling and cable plan
Ownership over vendor relationships - manage relationships with contractors, hardware vendors as well as collocation providers to support datacenter facilities
Lead project planning sessions, execute project tasks, troubleshoot and resolve problems
Identify technical challenges and conduct technical troubleshooting to resolve issues
Leverage and develop tools to monitor data center environments
Manage hardware break\fix of equipment located in a colo
Maintain and create documentation related to servers, workstations, and other datacenter systems
Manage and oversee on-site work at remote data centers as needed (less than 25% travel)
Install pre-terminated multi-mode or single-mode fiber between fiber patch panels, network or storage devices and server
Ensure copper and fiber cabling is installed and terminated in a manner that ensures the highest standards both functionally as well as aesthetically
Configuring serial console access (console server) for equipment as required
Oversee the racking and stacking of all equipment within the data center
Troubleshoot copper and fiber structured cabling to resolve connectivity issues
Installation of internal server components for break/fix
Coordinate the arrival of equipment with appropriate staff for receiving and installation
Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

At least 7+ years of experience managing and overseeing a highly available data center environment
Knowledge of common cabling standards for network communications
Experience with various media types, including but not limited to single mode and multimode fiber and cat6
Understanding of network layer design concepts
Ability to read network topology drawings and comprehend basic fundamentals
Strong understanding of power and cooling infrastructure
Highly effective in oral and written communication with an ability to communicate with people of varying technical abilities
Must have the ability to adapt to change and work in ambiguous situations, anticipate future requirements, and have the ability to make and communicate decisions
Predictable and reliable availability, with the flexibility to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed
Bachelor's degree preferred

If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both intern and full-time opportunities.

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