Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer, Nodal Exchange, Vienna, VA
Nodal Exchange -
Vienna, VA,
US
Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer
Date Posted: 2024-06-21
Job description
Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Tysons Corner
Description
Nodal Exchange, the largest power futures exchange in North America, is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management to participants. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world's largest sets of environmental and electric power futures and options contracts. All transactions on Nodal Exchange are cleared through its wholly owned subsidiary, Nodal Clear, using its award-winning portfolio-margining methodology. As leaders in innovation, Nodal Exchange and Nodal Clear have built in-house most of the trading and clearing platforms that fuel our business. Nodal Exchange is part of the EEX Group which is in turn part of the Deutsche Brse Group.
We are now looking for talented, innovative individuals to join our team in Tysons Corner, VA (DC Metro area).
Key Responsibilities
Nodal seeks an intelligent, articulate, and skilled Systems Administrator/Engineer. This hire will:
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Required Professional Qualifications:
What We Offer Our Employees:
Nodal Exchange, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, parental status, marital status, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, veteran status, physical or mental health, hairstyle, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or in any other terms and conditions of employment. Nodal Exchange is an E-verify participant.
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Tysons Corner
Description
Nodal Exchange, the largest power futures exchange in North America, is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management to participants. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world's largest sets of environmental and electric power futures and options contracts. All transactions on Nodal Exchange are cleared through its wholly owned subsidiary, Nodal Clear, using its award-winning portfolio-margining methodology. As leaders in innovation, Nodal Exchange and Nodal Clear have built in-house most of the trading and clearing platforms that fuel our business. Nodal Exchange is part of the EEX Group which is in turn part of the Deutsche Brse Group.
We are now looking for talented, innovative individuals to join our team in Tysons Corner, VA (DC Metro area).
Key Responsibilities
Nodal seeks an intelligent, articulate, and skilled Systems Administrator/Engineer. This hire will:
- Create and maintain robust operating environments for key technologies and applications.
- Maintain virtualized infrastructure both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Plan and execute upgrades to operating systems on deployed servers.
- Deploy and provision new server hardware.
- Be an integral part of many technology phases: Evaluation, procurement, design, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, restoration and recovery.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Required Professional Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a closely related field
- 5+ years of related experience
- Strong fundamental Linux Administration skills (LFCS or RHCE level)
- Strong fundamental Windows Administration skills (MCSE or MCWSHAA level)
- Proficient in at least one scripting language such as Python, Powershell and/or Bash
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Experience working with VMware vCenter and ESXi
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues
- Confidence in own ideas along with openness to others' ideas
- Experience with automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, Rundeck etc.)
- Experience with HashiCorp products like Terraform and Vault.
- Experience with log analysis using Splunk
- Experience in transforming legacy applications to cloud.
- Experience in system performance tuning and security hardening.
- Experience in administering databases such as Postgres
- Experience working with any of the big public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
What We Offer Our Employees:
- A collaborative workplace culture where we value your contributions and ideas
- A comprehensive benefits plan which includes, but not limited to immediate access to low-cost health insurance plans (highly company subsidized with an employee cost as low as $10/month), a retirement savings plan with a competitive company match, and PTO that includes vacation, holidays, floating holidays, and unlimited sick leave, and company-paid life and disability insurance
- Contemporary workspaces designed to inspire innovative thinking in a fun, relaxed environment
- Catered weekly breakfast and lunch
- Free full-service gym access onsite
- Workplace flexibility - we value work/life balance, designed to fit your team, and your and your family's needs
Nodal Exchange, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, parental status, marital status, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, veteran status, physical or mental health, hairstyle, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or in any other terms and conditions of employment. Nodal Exchange is an E-verify participant.