Operations Engineer - Front End Application Support

• Company

  PEAK6 Investments, LP

• Location

  USA-IL-Chicago

• Remuneration

  Not Specified

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  23-Oct-2013

• eFC Ref no

  1297451

This role will be responsible for keeping our consumer-focused desktop and mobile sites online and functional, quickly identifying and addressing problems to ensure the best customer experience possible, monitor site performance and client-side errors, applying real time fixes as well as proactively helping to improve

PEAK6 Investments, established in 1997, is a leading financial institution in Chicago with a demonstrated track record of success in proprietary trading. Specializing in inventory and risk management, PEAK6 Investments employs state of the art technology and proprietary tools and is thoroughly committed to building the next generation of automated trading systems and businesses. PEAK6 is constantly expanding its commercial focus to include leading-edge initiatives in the hedge fund, online media, retail options brokerage and institutional trading segments. Voted Chicago's Best and Brightest Employers to Work For, four of the last five years, PEAK6 Investments offers: competitive salary, performance bonuses, and a great benefits package including: medical, dental, vision, 401K, paid vacation, sickness and disability benefits, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, along with a casual work environment and dress code and the occasional yoga class. PEAK6 currently employs over 400 professionals and is rapidly growing in scope, complexity and depth of operation.

OptionsHouse is currently seeking an operations engineer with experience supporting front-end applications.  This role will be responsible for keeping our consumer-focused desktop and mobile sites online and functional, quickly identifying and addressing problems to ensure the best customer experience possible.  This role will monitor site performance and client-side errors, applying real time fixes as well as proactively helping to improve the sites reliability and performance moving forward.  Implementation of new or updating of current software and other operational functions necessary to support the site and maintain high uptime percentages will be a substantial part of this role.



Key Skills and Responsibilities 

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve site issues
• Assist with system administration 
• Create automation to assist with site monitoring and deployment
• Must have strong problem solving skills and be passionate about learning new technologies and effectively & appropriately leveraging them
• Contribute ideas to solutions across technical operations 
• Must be flexible to participate in on-call support 
• Stay current of changes to all browsers and understand and proactively address potential issues browser updates might cause to site and user's experience

Requirements

• 3+ years professional experience with:
  • Scripting languages, such as Python, Ruby, Perl
  • Apache server configuration/management, including Apache Rewrites
  • Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, AJAX, Java, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails
• Experience with nginx or HAProxy
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, New Relic, Splunk
• Firm understanding and experience with TCP/IP networking concepts and principles
• Systems administration experience on Linux Systems (Ubuntu, Centos)
• Experience managing infrastructures underneath highly available public facing, front end web servers/web sites, including building, maintaining and troubleshooting.
• Experience in trading, financial services, or e-commerce preferred

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