Systems Engineer

**About Akuna:** Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London and Singapore.

### What you will do as a Systems Engineer at Akuna: - Analyze complex technical problems and collaborate on designing solutions for Akuna’s global Infrastructure platform - Drive projects and solutions to completion in a fast-paced environment - Design, develop and maintain orchestration and configuration solutions - Collaborate with developers and other infrastructure engineers to research new products and techniques that drive innovation and improve efficiency and performance in the environment - Architect and maintain multi-vendor, tier-based storage solutions - Build out a test automation framework for systems performance testing and tuning - Create and institute process enforcement across environments - Create tools that assist teams to optimize the available infrastructure - Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides - Lead knowledge transfer sessions and mentor team members to ensure continuity and operational excellence - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize system performance, security, and reliability

### Qualities that make great candidates: - Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field - 3+ years of systems engineering experience - Deep understanding of virtualization and containerization technologies - Extensive experience with a variety of Linux distributions (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc.) - Deep understanding of system monitoring and configuration management tools (Ansible, Foreman, Prometheus and Icinga/Nagios) - Proficiency in scripting and using automation and orchestration tools such as Python and Bash - Expertise in troubleshooting multicast and TCP related performance issues - Experience automating daily software and hardware related tasks - Demonstrated ability to lead large technical projects - Experience with automating infrastructure builds, such as Preseed, NetBoot, Anaconda, Kickstart and Ansible customization - Familiarity with git or a similar version control tool

*In accordance with Illinois Equal Pay Act, the minimum base salary starts at $120,000. Exact compensation offered may vary based on many factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and skill set. This role is also eligible for a discretionary performance bonus as part of the total compensation package and includes a comprehensive benefits package that may encompass employer-paid medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, paid time off, and other benefits.*

Akuna Capital is an American proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making, providing liquidity through competitive buy and sell quotes using proprietary low-latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models. It operates with its own capital, has no clients or external investors, and focuses on collaboration across technology, trading, quant, and operations departments. Founded by partners from Sydney, it emphasizes innovation in derivatives trading.