The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities and requirements, though some areas could use more detail.
Job description
Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
Responsibilities
### What You'll Do:
- Develop deep technical expertise in your assigned product area and tech stack.
- Own production deployment, configuration, and release processes.
- Drive performance, reliability, and operability through continuous improvement.
- Build and maintain production tooling that supports deployment, orchestration, monitoring, and system diagnostics.
- Define and maintain observability, SLI/SLOs, and performance metrics in partnership with product owners.
- Leverage metrics and capacity planning to ensure scalability and uptime.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex production incidents.
- Lead and coordinate incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems.
- Influence architecture and promote best practices by aligning with global SRE teams.
- Document processes and procedures; provide mentorship and cross-training to peers.
- Actively manage operational risk for production changes.
- Other duties as assigned or needed.
Requirements
### Skills You'll Need:
- Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 5+ years of relevant work experience in an IT ops role, such as DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, or Network Engineering.
- At least 5+ years of experience using systems programming language (C/C++/Golang/Rust).
- A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations.
- Strong understanding of the Linux operating system, including network and system configuration, kernel internals, scheduling, performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, LLDP, VLANs, and Ethernet.
- A deep sense of ownership and desire to meet business priorities with urgency.
- Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties.
- Reliable and predictable availability.
Conditions
### Location: Singapore | Department: IT Infrastructure + WCW
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm specializing in algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies across futures, options, cryptocurrency, and equities markets worldwide. The company employs traders, engineers, and researchers to develop advanced models, tools, and systems for global trading. It operates as a registered broker-dealer and member of exchanges like CME Group and NYSE.