TXSE is building the next-generation exchange infrastructure to support transparent, efficient, and resilient capital markets. With SEC approval and $270MM in funding, we are currently hiring a Senior Systems Architect to help with a greenfield infrastructure build out.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Architecture & Engineering: Design, implement, and evolve highly availableinfrastructure platforms that support mission-critical trading, market data, and financialservices workloads across on-premises and cloud environments.
- OpenShift & Kubernetes: Architect, deploy, and maintain resilient Red Hat OpenShiftand Kubernetes platforms for low-latency, high-throughput production environments.
- Linux Engineering: Provide senior-level engineering leadership for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux (RHEL) systems, including kernel tuning, performance optimization, patchingstrategy, lifecycle management, and operational standards.
- Market-Critical Infrastructure Services: Engineer and support core infrastructureservices essential to distributed financial systems, including LDAP, Kerberos, SSSD,DNS, BIND, PowerDNS, NTP, Chrony, and PTP, with a focus on precision, availability,and operational integrity.
- Cloud & Hybrid Architecture: Design and operate secure AWS and Azure solutions,including hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that satisfy financial industry requirementsfor resilience, auditability, security, and business continuity.
- Enterprise Hardware & Storage: Lead the design, support, and optimization ofinfrastructure running on Dell PowerEdge servers and enterprise storage platforms, withemphasis on performance, replication, capacity planning, and fault tolerance.
- Automation & Platform Reliability: Develop and standardize infrastructure automationusing Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, Terraform, Pulumi, and scripting frameworksto improve repeatability, speed, and operational consistency.
- Developer & Release Platform Integration: Manage GitHub Enterprise and relatedintegrations, including SonarQube, Artifactory, and GitHub Actions runners, to enablesecure and scalable software delivery workflows.
- Operational Resilience & Compliance: Ensure platforms are designed and operated tomeet the security, availability, resiliency, and regulatory expectations of financialservices and capital markets environments.
- Architecture Leadership: Establish design standards, reference architectures, andreusable engineering patterns that can be deployed consistently across multiple businessand technology domains.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with trading, applicationdevelopment, production support, cybersecurity, network engineering, and infrastructureteams to deliver stable, performant, and scalable solutions aligned with front-office andenterprise priorities.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Linux infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, orplatform architecture roles.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and supporting Red Hat OpenShift and/orKubernetes in production.
- Strong experience supporting infrastructure in New York financial markets, includingtrading environments, market data platforms, exchange connectivity, or other latency-sensitive capital markets systems.
- Deep understanding of the operational demands of financial services environments,including high availability, change control, resiliency, audit, and regulatoryconsiderations.
- Proven expertise in RHEL engineering, systems performance tuning, and productionplatform design.
- Strong background in building standardized, reusable architecture patterns with a “designonce, use many” approach.
- Demonstrated experience with AWS and Azure, including secure networking, storageintegration, identity controls, and hybrid deployment models.
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise compute and storage infrastructure, including DellPowerEdge servers and Dell EMC storage platforms.
- In-depth knowledge of authentication, DNS, and time synchronization services indistributed, performance-sensitive environments.
- Strong proficiency in infrastructure automation and scripting using tools such as Ansible,Terraform, Pulumi, Bash, and Python.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engageeffectively with engineering teams, operations teams, application owners, and businessleadership.
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting infrastructure for equities, options, futures, fixed income, or othercapital markets trading platforms.
- Familiarity with low-latency infrastructure design, market hours operational support, andproduction change controls in front-office environments.
- Experience designing platforms that support regulatory, surveillance, disaster recovery,and operational resiliency requirements in financial markets.
- Background leading engineering standards, architectural reviews, and platformmodernization initiatives.
$200,000 - $300,000 a year