Senior Systems Architect

TXSE is building the next-generation exchange infrastructure to support transparent, efficient, and resilient capital markets. With SEC approval and $270MM in funding, we are currently hiring a Senior Systems Architect to help with a greenfield infrastructure build out.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & Engineering: Design, implement, and evolve highly available

  infrastructure platforms that support mission-critical trading, market data, and financial

  services workloads across on-premises and cloud environments.

• OpenShift & Kubernetes: Architect, deploy, and maintain resilient Red Hat OpenShift

  and Kubernetes platforms for low-latency, high-throughput production environments.

• Linux Engineering: Provide senior-level engineering leadership for Red Hat Enterprise

  Linux (RHEL) systems, including kernel tuning, performance optimization, patching

  strategy, lifecycle management, and operational standards.

• Market-Critical Infrastructure Services: Engineer and support core infrastructure

  services essential to distributed financial systems, including LDAP, Kerberos, SSSD,

  DNS, BIND, PowerDNS, NTP, Chrony, and PTP, with a focus on precision, availability,

  and operational integrity.

• Cloud & Hybrid Architecture: Design and operate secure AWS and Azure solutions,

  including hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that satisfy financial industry requirements

  for resilience, auditability, security, and business continuity.

• Enterprise Hardware & Storage: Lead the design, support, and optimization of

  infrastructure running on Dell PowerEdge servers and enterprise storage platforms, with

  emphasis on performance, replication, capacity planning, and fault tolerance.

• Automation & Platform Reliability: Develop and standardize infrastructure automation

  using Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, Terraform, Pulumi, and scripting frameworks

  to improve repeatability, speed, and operational consistency.

• Developer & Release Platform Integration: Manage GitHub Enterprise and related

  integrations, including SonarQube, Artifactory, and GitHub Actions runners, to enable

  secure and scalable software delivery workflows.

• Operational Resilience & Compliance: Ensure platforms are designed and operated to

  meet the security, availability, resiliency, and regulatory expectations of financial

  services and capital markets environments.

• Architecture Leadership: Establish design standards, reference architectures, and

  reusable engineering patterns that can be deployed consistently across multiple business

  and technology domains.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with trading, application

  development, production support, cybersecurity, network engineering, and infrastructure

  teams to deliver stable, performant, and scalable solutions aligned with front-office and

  enterprise priorities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Linux infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or

  platform architecture roles.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and supporting Red Hat OpenShift and/or

  Kubernetes in production.

• Strong experience supporting infrastructure in New York financial markets, including

  trading environments, market data platforms, exchange connectivity, or other latency-

  sensitive capital markets systems.

• Deep understanding of the operational demands of financial services environments,

  including high availability, change control, resiliency, audit, and regulatory

  considerations.

• Proven expertise in RHEL engineering, systems performance tuning, and production

  platform design.

• Strong background in building standardized, reusable architecture patterns with a “design

  once, use many” approach.

• Demonstrated experience with AWS and Azure, including secure networking, storage

  integration, identity controls, and hybrid deployment models.

• Advanced knowledge of enterprise compute and storage infrastructure, including Dell

  PowerEdge servers and Dell EMC storage platforms.

• In-depth knowledge of authentication, DNS, and time synchronization services in

  distributed, performance-sensitive environments.

• Strong proficiency in infrastructure automation and scripting using tools such as Ansible,

  Terraform, Pulumi, Bash, and Python.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage

  effectively with engineering teams, operations teams, application owners, and business

  leadership.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting infrastructure for equities, options, futures, fixed income, or other

  capital markets trading platforms.

• Familiarity with low-latency infrastructure design, market hours operational support, and

  production change controls in front-office environments.

• Experience designing platforms that support regulatory, surveillance, disaster recovery,

  and operational resiliency requirements in financial markets.

• Background leading engineering standards, architectural reviews, and platform

  modernization initiatives.