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Position:  Colo LL Strategic Specialist   - Compute   Business Area: Infrastructure     Job Summary:      Squarepoint is looking for a talented and highly motivated Ultra Low Latency Platform Engineer to provide solutions across  Squarepoint’s  global  colocation  (COLOs) estate consisting of 400+ servers across  30  global sites.  The candidate will  be responsible for  project delivery, support escalations, monitoring, automation, security, documentation, and capacity management for  Squarepoint’s  low latency infrastructure. This will involve collaborating with our business partners, application owners, clients, vendors, and internal teams (SRE, Network, Application Support and Application Development, Quants, etc.) to deliver  end to end  solutions  in a timely manner .   Manage systems efficiently at scale through standardization, automation, testing, and in-depth monitoring  Enforce development standards for source control, testing, and continuous integration for infrastructure, OS, patches, and configuration management  Manage a distributed compute environment and multiple petabyte-scale storage systems  Install, manage, and monitor the Linux operating system (RHEL based)  Troubleshoot complex hardware and software issues throughout the Squarepoint technology stack  Create self-healing systems and automated recovery processes  Respond to system incidents and participate in on-call rotations  Conduct root cause analysis of incidents and outages  Reduce operational toil through the development of user-driven automated workflows  Work with business owners to regularly re-prioritize the book of work, while delivering both tactical and long-term objectives    Required Qualifications:   8+ years of experience working with Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky preferred) in a large complex or niche environment with the following areas of focus: operations, systems engineering and systems performance. Deep knowledge of server Architecture:  HP, SuperMicro, Dell, various overclock servers. Low latency network interfaces and kernel bypass (configuration and optimization):  Solarflare with onload, Mellanox with VMA. System hardware/OS tuning and performance troubleshooting, understanding of CPU architectures. Experience with build and configuration management tools, specifically Chef or Ansible. Experience with observability tools, specifically Grafana and Prometheus. Highly motivated and a keen eye for scripting and automation in Python, Ruby, and Bash etc. Deep knowledge and experience of server network stack configuration, tuning and troubleshooting including TCP, UDP(unicast/multicast), NTP, PTP, wireshark/tshark Strong communication: verbal and written. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to tackle troubleshooting the unknown, glitches and the obscure. Well-organized, proactive, resourceful, able to handle a fast-paced environment, question the status quo, accountable and possesses an ownership mindset. Good understanding of trading venues such as Nasdaq, LSE, Euronext etc. Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related experience. Well-rounded understanding of network architectures   Nice to have:   Kernel development with  ability  to  modify  stock  kernels  adding custom features. Trade flow analysis: Understanding protocols used by various exchanges :  FIX , BOE, OUCH/ITCH, PILLAR, SBE, OMEX Experience with configuration management tools i.e.  Ansible, Chef, and Terraform. Familiarity with different network switch vendors and different switch architectures. Experience with  working with FPGA based applications and L1