DevOps Platform Engineer

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. This wouldn't be possible without the dedicated efforts of our technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions. 
Our team's focus is to deliver high-quality data solutions to our core and affiliated groups. We strive to understand and support end-user needs who both leverage data for performance analytics and depend on our SQL Server infrastructure backing production trading systems. The data team strives to ensure that properly curated data is in the hands of the people who need it. They deliver the data and tools Belvedere needs to perform complex analytics and make data-driven decisions.
We're looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer to help drive the design and implementation of our ever-growing platform. At the Engineer level, you will help shape the direction of our CI/CD platform, cloud architecture and DevOps strategy. You will work on providing a cohesive environment to empower other teams to build amazing applications that drive trading. We focus on cloud engineering, automating workflows, CI/CD, and building a platform that makes developers more effective and efficient.  What you'll do

• Expand and enhance existing CI/CD systems, infrastructure as code, build job orchestration, development environment automation. 
• Architect and manage large scale Kubernetes workloads. 
• Own DevOps and cloud engineering solutions from inception to delivery through stakeholder feedback, documenting design decisions, observability, and long-term maintainability. 
• Partner with internal development teams and regularly communicate with them to help deliver a high-quality platform that is observable and self-service. 
• Monitor the performance and cost data of (cloud systems, pipelines, etc) while continuously optimizing with development team partners. 
• Learn and grow your knowledge of development experience to help other developers and quants be more effective. 
• Use your unique knowledge base to help other team members make better products and break established assumptions on how things should work. 
• Take full ownership (design, implement, test, deploy, maintain) of your projects. 

What you'll need

• 3-5 years of experience
• Compiling, and deploying software in multiple languages with a focus on C++, Python, and Java 
• Build automation tooling with a focus on Bazel 
• Hybrid cloud/on-prem Kubernetes/Helm architecture design, build, and operations 
• Google Cloud Platform and associated SaaS/PaaS products 
• Observability experience using major tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, CloudWatch, etc 
• Linux and networking 
• Terraform, including modularization 
• DevEx experience delivering bespoke development platforms 
• Major CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Github, ArgoCD, or Jenkins 
• Package management tooling such aspypy, conan, maven, conda etc

Nice to have

• Cloud-based data warehousing operations at scale (20+ petabyte range) using BigQuery (preferred) or AWS RedShift, Azure Synapse, or Databricks. 
• Job orchestration services like Apache Airflow 
• Advanced Linux skills, such as kernel and memory tuning and container optimizations 
• Streaming data and messaging, such as Apache Pulsar or Kafka 

$120,000 - $170,000 a year Additionally, certain positions at Belvedere Trading are eligible for discretionary bonuses. Our employees have access to a variety of benefits, which can be found on our website here. Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer. We welcome your application.
Core Values The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Build Rockets, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.   Our Stance Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.   Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.   Any questions regarding the recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].   Work Schedule: Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours Amount of Travel Required: None
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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