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Our approach is rigorous and pragmatic, driven by technological expertise and analytics informed by real-world experience. We value employees who love to learn and have the tenacity, curiosity and willpower to contribute to our continuing success.\nWe are a small but passionate team, dedicated to enhancing and refining our tried and true methods as we commit to our ongoing growth and performance.\nQuantiq runs considerable \"in-house\" infrastructure (IPA realm) consisting of 50-100 computers ranging from high performance servers and varied datacenter hardware (switches, FPGAs, fiber optic cabling), to desktop computers with dedicated GPUs and an array of monitors and peripherals across offices.\nQuantiq controls the majority of the stack and creates, maintains, updates, and monitors a variety of systems to keep the company’s trading operational. Within our hardware infrastructure we run entirely on Fedora Linux and have significant first and third party software that requires occasional maintenance. This complete infrastructure has high uptime requirements to support our trading operations.\nRole Description:\nAs a System Administrator, you will be responsible for keeping all internal infrastructure, both hardware and software, running smoothly and supporting the operations and software teams on a day-to-day basis.\nYou will be responsible for full system life cycles: provisioning, install and setup, asset and inventory management, maintenance, monitoring, and decommission of a variety of systems. You will also deal with vendors to acquire new hardware and deploy it. You may occasionally find yourself setting up a desktop or monitor in addition to racking servers. If the following resonates with you, we would love to welcome you to our team.\nJob Responsibilities:\nTroubleshoot and monitor proprietary frameworks/code and third-party systems\nManage access credentials to a variety of applications and trading systems\nExhibit cautious and responsible use of sysadmin privileges\nMake infrequent trips to our Austin and Chicago datacenters to maintain hardware\nCreate, document, and enforce backup procedures and failovers in all systems\nRun drills/trials and improve failure tolerances across infrastructure\nAssist with onboarding new hires to in-house systems and infrastructure\nRespond to issues and requests from the Operations and Technical teams\nQualifications:\n5+ years of experience in a Linux-based admin role, or equivalent\nAttention to detail in a fast-paced environment\nAbility to respond to occasional off-hour emergencies\nExcellent organizational skills and strong written and verbal communication skills\nExceptional capability debugging and solving complex issues related to both hardware, low level software, and networking\nAbility to perform Bash and Python scripting\nBasic networking tool experience (ping, ifconfig, telnet, wireshark, nmcli)\nKnowledge of network architecture is a plus\nExperience with the following technologies:\nComputer hardware (such as Supermicro and Dell Servers)\nNetworking hardware\nFedora Linux\nFreeIPA, OpenLDAP, OpenVPN\nDNS\nZFS\nGitea, Zulip\nGRUB, PXE\n\n*Note: You are not expected to know every technology listed but experience in all is a plus\nPlease Apply If:\nYou run a home lab for fun and enjoy the sound of server fans\nYou are a problem solver who wants to understand the intricacies of a complex system\nYou are a distro hopper and can discuss the nuances of your preferred distribution\nYou are the type of person to remember the IP address of a certain machine on your network\nYou love to see nicely organized, color-coded, and labeled cables\nFriends and family call you for tech support and you fix their problems\nPlease note: The use of AI tools during applications, assessments, and interviews is strictly prohibited. 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