Consulting to design and implement low latency trading network

Provide network and systems engineering for low latency transmission system. Work with engineering team responsible for design, development, support of electronic brokering system and low latency trading applications. The servers run on Red Hat Linux with a large scale global deployment, storage, and advanced scripting for all of the above. There is an operations focus as well to this systems engineering and administration role. Perform systems administration, hardware configuration activities, and software installation and deployment activities. Create advanced scripts for systems administration and operational tasks for trading engines. Develop automated installation and maintenance solutions for OS and application layer products using Puppet/Kickstart for Red Hat Linux. Create thorough technical documentation for use by operational staff. Guide field staff with deployment of servers remotely. Performance tuning of software and OS stack. Benchmarking of new hardware for R&D. Provide expertise for hardware architecture and network protocol and design. virtualization, Linux OS kernel, kernel bypass, bios tuning, kernel optimization,