Job Title:  Associate, Linux Engineer

Job Title:                                        Linux Engineer

Corporate Title:                              Associate

Location:                                        Hong Kong

SFID:                                              8009

About Instinet                                                                                                              

As the agency-model execution services arm of the Nomura Group, Instinet Incorporated subsidiaries provide brokerage services to clients in over 65 markets around the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, Instinet helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. In the US, Instinet also offers a boutique-model Equity Research offering to assist their clients in the pursuit of alpha generation in a changing landscape. Over the course of its 45+ year history, Instinet has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.

Overview

Instinet’s technology is as diverse as it is innovative, incorporating industry-leading technologies to service the ever-evolving and dynamic global financial markets industry. The Global Linux team is a highly-skilled and technical team within Instinet spanning across India, Hong Kong, Sydney, London and New York. The team support highly performant, low latency Compute technology to Instinet’s electronic trading and portfolio trading sales teams globally. The Linux team strives to continuously improve, build and architect underlying Compute to provide the best possible trading platform and be recognized as a leading example of all execution trading platforms.

Role Description

As a Linux Engineer you will play a vital role in ensuring the stability and performance of our Linux-based infrastructure. This will include ensuring operations run consistently in a standard way across all regions and that data is appropriately stored, protected or archived within agreed service levels. As part of the 24/7 service be responsible for incident and change management and provide technical guidance to other members of the team or other infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle management of all Linux systems.
• Provide technical excellence and guidance in best practice.
• Actively seeking opportunities to improve the processes, technologies and stability of the Linux estate.
• Performing routine system maintenance.
• Auditing & implementing remediation actions to comply with IT Governance policies and procedures.
• Performing root cause problem investigations and implementing remediation.

• Use Jira & ServiceNow to coordinate department activities and be able to develop dashboards and reports that measure success.
• Work to deliver new technology such that its adoption and configuration is standard between all regions and collaborate with development groups to enable the features meeting the needs of the company.
• Partaking in On-Call Rota (Inc. Weekend Work).
• Use Ansible for configuration management and uniform deployment.
• Ability to create concise, clean, and clear technically documented re-usable code and understand the philosophy of coding (IaC).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer scienve or information technology from an accredited University
• Minimum 4 years’ experience as a Linux system administration covering user management, file systems, process management, system performance tuning, and managing the full life cycle of all Linux systems including installations, configurations, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Linux distributions (e.g. Red Hat, CentoS, or Oracle).
• Hands on experience with Linux Kernel, FPGA and Network card offloading.
• Experience managing F5 load balancers (traffic distribution, high availability, application delivery, security features, and advance monitoring
• Proficiency scripting in Shell, Bash, Phyton, Ansible or other shell languages for automation and task management.
• Experience of using Jira and ServiceNow tools.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with a strong command of the English language.
• Strong team player with willingness to teach and learn from others.

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER:  This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job.  The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. 

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer