ION Group-posted 27 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Jersey City, NJ
1,001-5,000 employees
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

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.

  • 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.
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