DevOps/SRE Intern

TransMarket Group · Software Engineering

Where: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Posted: Jun 2

Founded in 1980 as Aardvark Financial, TransMarket Group (TMG) is a privately held global markets proprietary trading firm in Chicago. We use next-generation technology to capture opportunities around the world and manage risk in financial markets. Our mission is to bless others through the services we provide and through the generous stewardship of the wealth we create.

TMG is a well-established and profitable business as a respected member of the global financial system for over 40 years, but also is like a startup because the potential of our group is at least one order of magnitude greater than what we are currently producing.

What you'd do

Provide day to day support of the firm’s proprietary software trading environment
Work directly with our Traders, Trade Developers, Platform Developers, and IT Team to automate and maintain systems for deployment of trading software, configuration management, CI/CD and backtesting pipelines
Work with end users to design monitoring and alerting systems that can be used to catch and diagnose issues in real time to help ensure the health of our trading environment
Designing and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines for our trading platform components.
Building and maintaining infrastructure monitoring and alerting systems to help us quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
Collaborating with co-workers on designing applications and platform components to meet automation requirements.
Ensuring that software and infrastructure components are up-to-date and free of any security vulnerabilities
Systematising and then documenting new and existing processes to help us tame our ever changing IT operations
Working on automated provisioning of new servers and updating existing ones
Working as part of an in-office team to collaborate directly with our experienced traders and technologists on brainstorming and implementing creative solutions to a wide range of problems.

What they want

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