DevOps/SRE Intern

Who We Are

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. We have an entrepreneurial culture and collaboratively develop our business with patience and discipline; we work hard, learn constantly, and relentlessly improve our expertise.

Description

As a DevOps/SRE intern, you will be a part of a team which directly works on projects that span every level of our technology stack at TransMarket Group. From developing systems that automate the building, testing, and deployment of latency-sensitive trading applications, to designing and implementing critical back-office data flows and applications, your work will enable us to systematically improve our software. This, in turn, will tighten feedback loops and accelerate application development, directly contributing to increased P&L at the firm.

While closely interacting with our global technology teams, you’ll need to strike a careful balance between reliability and innovation. Given the breadth of the projects you will be involved in, no two days will feel the same. The ideal candidate will be self-driven and excited to learn about our trading operations from top to bottom.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

We offer one of the most generous profit sharing programs in the industry because we believe our employees should be able to take part in our rapid growth and success. We are proud to offer more world-class benefits for our full-time employees and their families.

TransMarket Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.