Inspire11 is a full-service consulting firm that helps clients reach their full potential by getting closer to their customers, their employees, and their communities. Utilizing innovative and strategic thought with technology to bring change and disruption to life. 

Our team partners with technology leaders to help them strategize and execute their digital, analytics and technology initiatives. We focus on positively disrupting the marketplace and building customer loyalty in an ever-fickle consumer market. We are constantly keeping our eyes open for revenue generating opportunities in organizations using application development and data analytics.  

In order to meet the demands of our high growth business, we are looking for talented DevOps Engineer to provide insights and solutions to our clients.  

What you do at Inspire11 

• You will work closely with our tech & consulting teams to understand their project needs, and help define & implement solutions that enable us to succeed in our objectives 
• You will work with AWS technologies like EC2, IAM, S3, CloudFront, RDS 
• You will automate repetitive tasks using tools like Puppet, Chef, Docker, Jenkins and/or Ansible 
• You will implement and optimize the CI/CD pipeline while accounting for re-usability, performance, and security 
• You will build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations 

 Why you are a fit for Inspire11:

• You have a varying level of experience from strategy to user research, information architecture and visual design 
• You have experience working in an Agile environment 
• You enjoy challenges, and feel that a big part of your value is the ability to solve complex client problems 
• You have a proven track record designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines  
• You have a passion for automation, optimization, and productivity  
• You are comfortable working in fast paced environments, are able to wear many hats, and have a general fear of being bored 

Why Inspire11 is a fit for you? 

At Inspire11, we believe our values make a difference:  

• We value, support, and help each other grow  
• We are committed to active inclusion and diversity  
• We are transparent and believe the best idea wins  
• We succeed when our customers succeed  
• And we keep it fun!  

We believe that everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. Nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of the digital and analytics space.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Junior Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As a Junior Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. 

Responsibilities

• Manage worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by contributing to the planning and execution of complex technical projects and tasks
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack 
• Plan and implement system installations and upgrades 
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications 
• Improve documentation and reduce technical debt
• Benchmark the performance of the trading stack, working with subject matter experts across the organization
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience managing Linux systems: you can install packages, manage users, control services, and know where to look for system logs, and you understand TCP/IP networking, default gateways, and how to debug connectivity problems
• Familiarity installing and configuring Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications 
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Basic familiarity with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – some knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Proven programming experience: you don't just know what big-O notation is, you've also built working software and can explain and defend your design
• Basic shell (bash) scripting experience
• Experience using JIRA
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Experience with production systems, as well as some cloud experience in AWS or GCP, is desirable but not required

The estimated base salary range for this position is 120,000 to 160,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

The Networks team designs, builds and maintains all the communications infrastructure that allows our high-capacity, low-latency trading and data research environments to run 24/7.  This network spans over 25 countries and 100 locations. We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer with experience designing and managing large environments to fulfill the high-performance and availability requirements of a premiere algorithmic trading firm operating in global financial markets. 

This position requires both project management and deep technical skills. Working together with some of the brightest minds in our industry, you’ll be responsible for everything from product selection and design to routing configuration and troubleshooting. You will work closely with our Systems and Trading Operations teams as well as others at HRT to build, manage, and monitor our low-latency trading network. You’ll have broad responsibilities with freedom to analyze and solve problems, and your solutions will have an immediate impact on our worldwide operations. 

We’re looking for someone with a love for technology and an excitement for tackling big picture problems. You will work on a wide variety of projects to enhance the performance and capacity of the global trading and research platforms and contribute to both high-level strategy and the technical nitty-gritty of our global network architecture.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related IT field
• 5-10 years of relevant experience, preferably in low-latency and high-frequency trading environments.
• In depth understanding of common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols and best practices; working knowledge of OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP
• Experience managing Arista, Cisco, and other common networking devices on a day-to-day basis
• Familiarity with low-latency microwave networks and/or optical transmission systems, such as Adva, Ciena is desirable
• Experience in designing enterprise networks, capacity planning, and full lifecycle project management
• Experience with packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Excellent oral and written communication skills: able to distill complicated issues into clear and concise terms and to create and maintain effective technical documentation
• Experience with Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
• Excellent troubleshooting skills on a wide range of networking issues, including common ethernet LAN problems, multicast market data distribution, and global WAN
• Understanding of basic power consumption and cooling issues in a datacenter environment
• Knowledge of fiber optics technology and cabling standards. Ability to sort through specs and make recommendations on appropriate purchases
• Willingness and ability to solve small technical problems in the field yourself.
• You have excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to admit mistakes.
• Familiarity with firewalls (including Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet), VPNs and NAT
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Salt is desirable
• Familiarity with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub is desirable
• Familiarity with public cloud networks, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, is desirable

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As a Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage, automate, and optimize worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by planning and executing complex technical projects and tasks
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack 
• Design and implement system installations and upgrades 
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications 
• Remain unfazed by production-critical issues, resolving them quickly and efficiently
• Benchmark and tune the performance of the trading stack 
• Hold vendors accountable on performance and reliability issues, with the ability to confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's Tier 2 engineering team during an escalation
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live production environment (especially trading)
• Expert in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications 
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Proficiency with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – strong knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Advanced programming experience focusing on automation and integration; Python is strongly preferred
• Advanced shell (bash) scripting experience
• Significant experience managing and debugging production trading services
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Proven ability to manage assigned projects efficiently, ideally using JIRA
• Architect-level cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable, but not required

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Hudson River Trading’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Network Engineering team designs and engineers the low-latency communications infrastructure that underpins our incredibly large GPU and CPU compute clusters. Our mandate is to architect, optimize, and scale the high-performance LAN and WAN infrastructure that interconnects globally distributed, large-scale on-prem data centers, enabling them to grow rapidly and operate at peak performance in support of HRT’s demanding computational workloads. 

We are looking for a Network Engineer with deep experience in designing, deploying, and scaling networks for large-scale HPC environments. You will be building the next generation of infrastructure required by a premier algorithmic trading firm operating at the forefront of technology and finance.

This position requires deep technical skills, along with the  product leadership and vision needed for the future of cloud-scale networking. You’ll have broad responsibilities and freedom to analyze and solve problems, and your solutions will have an immediate impact on our operations worldwide. We’re looking for someone who loves  technology and is excited about tackling big picture problems. You will work on a wide variety of projects to enhance the performance and capacity of the network and contribute to both the management and the technical nitty-gritty of our computing architecture. Our people and our compute capabilities are our two most important differentiators, and that is where we are investing the most.

Responsibilities

• Network design, product selection, routing, configuration and troubleshooting
• Closely work with our HPC Systems team, as well as other teams to scale our research environment 
• Meet with external parties for project related items as well as future endeavors
• Overall capacity planning for the data center networks
• Develop scripts and processes to increase efficiency
• Collaborate with others in the network team to solve cross discipline problems
• Provide detailed documentation 
• Mentor others as a senior resource 

Profile

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Proven ability to prioritize workloads and manage implementation schedules with a meticulous attention to detail 
• Proactive problem-solver with the technical skills and hands-on mentality to tackle challenges in the field.
• Strong collaboration skills and a focus on continuous improvement, with the humility to own and learn from mistakes 

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills: able to distill complicated issues into clear and concise terms
• Able to create and maintain clear and effective technical documentation
• In depth understanding of common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols (OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP, RoCEv2, spine-leaf architecture, and VXLAN) and best practices for them
• Proven ability to select and work with vendors to engineer switches for next-generation computing environments
• Experience managing Arista (EOS), Cisco (NX-OS), Nvidia (Cumulus) and SONiC-based switches, as well as an interest in exploring new platforms
• Strong design skills in computing and grid networks, with expertise in capacity planning, and full lifecycle project management
• Experience with packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Experience with public cloud networks, such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Salt is desirable to support zero-touch network management
• Familiarity with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub is desirable
• Understanding of basic power consumption and cooling issues in a data center environment
• Knowledge of fiber optics technology and cabling standards ranging from 1 to 800 Gbps. Ability to sort through specs and make recommendations on appropriate purchases.
• Skilled in Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
• Experience with AI style network designs and workloads is preferred

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

Radix Trading is seeking a seasoned HPC Systems Engineer with a passion for Linux, HPC systems and research infrastructure to join us. This role requires the ability to quickly troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, navigate networking and system alerts, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has experience leading projects end-to-end, fluency in scripting languages, and a proven track record of solving complex technical problems.

Job Functions:

• Own monitoring and performance tuning across HPC applications, SLURM job scheduler, networking, storage, and hardware to optimize workload efficiency.
• Perform root-cause analysis to develop sustainable automated solutions.
• Support and troubleshoot alerts and errors with savvy communication skills to interact with external entities and internal counterparts.
• Keep up communication with new and existing external vendors on technical infrastructure work.
• Keep up communication with new and existing external business interfaces --- day-to-day operation, planning connectivity, and exchange upgrades.
• Oversee communication with others internally - project management across different functions to plan exchange upgrades, hardware refreshes, and other improvements/rollouts.
• Build out and support research, trading, and enterprise infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of HPC system administration/architecture including RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Systems
• Experience with job scheduler and resource management tools such as SLURM, Moab, or Torque
• Knowledge of network storage systems such as DDN, IBM SpectrumScale, NetApp, Weka, or Vast
• Knowledge of parallel file systems such as Lustre or Spectrum Scale (GPFS)
• Experience working with InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as xCAT, Ansible, Salt, and Terraform
• Exposure to bare metal provisioning — including DHCP, DNS, PXE Boot
• Competence in Python, able to edit and create scripts

The Strategic Enterprise Account Executive role is an outside sales position responsible for developing, managing, and closing business for Strategic Enterprise customers in the North America region and is an integral part of the field sales organization. This person will partner with our demand generation, solutions engineering, and product teams to guide prospective customers through a solutions sales journey of modernizing their cloud platform architecture.  This position will require you to develop a deep understanding of the specific challenges customers are facing to help them positively achieve their business outcomes with Upbound’s solutions. 

This role will work cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales development and customer success to provide a tight-knit customer relationship, account leadership and direction in both the pre-sales and post-sales processes.

In this role, you will:  

• Carry a sales quota that aligns with Upbound’s revenue goals.
• Function as the primary point of contact and the face of Upbound for new prospects and customers.
• Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities within existing customer accounts.
• Manage complex strategic enterprise sales motions with multiple prospect engagement points.
• Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of Upbound products and services in partnership with pre-and-post sales engineering and support.
• Take ownership of your business by documenting the buying criteria, process, and owners to ensure pipeline accuracy.
• Look for and implement improvements to sales processes, tools, and materials.
• Travel to customer sites and industry conferences and events as needed.

You are a good fit if you have:

• Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding assigned annual/quarterly goals and targets and consistently ranked top 1-2 on your team.
• Sold to large enterprise G2K companies and adept at navigating global, multi-national organizations.
• Sold AI, Cloud, or Infrastructure platform oriented products.
• Experience in solution and value selling in the enterprise cloud, cloud-native, and AI product spaces
• Correctly estimate qualifying opportunities based on MEDDICC.
• Drive to build a business, hunger to find and close deals, and pride in the growth of the business.
• Relentless focus on customer success and meeting the needs of present and future customers.
• Experience building positive professional relationships with senior IT and business executives.
• Clear and articulate written, verbal, online, and in-person communication skills.
• Professionalism, polish, attention to detail, and strong follow-up.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to help solve problems outside of your immediate lane.
• Fun in your job and enjoy what you do.

It’s a plus if you: 

• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, AI solutions, and/or Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Chef).
• Significant experience selling disruptive technology into focused markets.

 #LI-REMOTE

Responsibilities:

• Provision, configure, and support server, network, and desktop equipment.
• Mature the automation efforts of the lifecycle of a server, including onboarding, patching, and sunsetting.
• Provide technical support to traders and other office staff, with a strong focus on user satisfaction.
• Perform data center work, such as cabling, server install/decom, and part replacement.
• Monitor and respond to application, operating system, network and hardware events quickly. Enhance existing monitoring infrastructure as needed.
• Document new projects and procedures. Improve upon existing documentation where needed.
• Work with network, trading, and operations staff as part of daily trading and on projects.

Requirements:

• Pursuing a BS or MS degree in computer science, engineering, or IT with expected graduation in 2025/2026.
• Good understanding of computer science fundamentals, including operating systems, networking, and programming concepts.
• Experience with Linux and various Linux distributions. Examples: Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu.
• Bash and Python experience.
• Prior use and understanding of a version control system, such as Git.
• Familiarity with virtualization and containers, such as VMware and Docker.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Salt Stack, etc... are a plus.
• Basic client-side and server-side SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc...) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, etc..) database experience is a plus.
• Ability to lift equipment weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Prior use of bare-metal server provisioning tools, such as Foreman, is a plus.
• Willingness to work occasional weekends and evenings.
• Ability to communicate clearly and stay calm under pressure.
• This position requires physical presence and is on-site (no remote work).

Responsibilities

• Ownership over our data center infrastructure, tasked with all aspects of keeping it up and operating in an optimal and reliable manner
• Contacting third-party vendors about remote equipment installation and maintenance and then supervising those projects through completion
• Performing hardware installation and troubleshooting existing hardware
• Documenting both new and established procedures to establish and foster best practices firmwide
• Cooperating with other engineers to provide stable and secure deployments of new infrastructure components
• Working with network engineers to reliably upgrade and replace old network equipment
• Developing an automated provisioning system and keeping the inventory system up to date
• Troubleshooting software issues that might be related to hardware failures
• Providing in-office hardware support
• Working as part of an in-office team to collaborate directly with our experienced traders and technologists on brainstorming and implementing creative solutions to a wide range of problems

Requirements

• BA/BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related experience
• 2+ years of experience in related field
• Hands-on experience cabling, racking, and installing bare metal servers, network devices, and network cards
• Experience with remote management tools for servers (iDrac, iLO)
• Understanding of automated provisioning tools (PXE, Foreman) and ability to create installation files (kickstart, preseed)
• Experience with Linux at the administration level (Debian, CentOS)
• Working experience with Windows is a plus
• Practical knowledge of inventory tools (Netbox)
• Good understanding of monitoring tools (Icinga2, Grafana, ELK)
• Experience with infrastructure management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
• Good management skills with ticketing and documentation tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Bash or other) is a plus
• Experience in a low latency environment a strong plus, e.g., Solarflare, Onload, PTP

Additional Requirements

• Flexibility to occasionally work outside of core business hours and on weekends.
• Ability to travel and provide support to other regions occasionally as needed.
• This position requires physical presence and is onsite (no remote work)

Description

As a DevOps/SRE intern, you will be a part of a team which directly works on projects that span every level of our technology stack at TransMarket Group. From developing systems that automate the building, testing, and deployment of latency-sensitive trading applications, to designing and implementing critical back-office data flows and applications, your work will enable us to systematically improve our software. This, in turn, will tighten feedback loops and accelerate application development, directly contributing to increased P&L at the firm.

While closely interacting with our global technology teams, you’ll need to strike a careful balance between reliability and innovation. Given the breadth of the projects you will be involved in, no two days will feel the same. The ideal candidate will be self-driven and excited to learn about our trading operations from top to bottom.

Responsibilities

• Provide day to day support of the firm’s proprietary software trading environment
• Work directly with our Traders, Trade Developers, Platform Developers,  and IT Team to automate and maintain systems for deployment of trading software, configuration management, CI/CD and backtesting pipelines
• Work with end users to design monitoring and alerting systems that can be used to catch and diagnose issues in real time to help ensure the health of our trading environment
• Designing and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines for our  trading platform components. 
• Building and maintaining infrastructure monitoring and alerting systems to help us quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
• Collaborating with co-workers on designing applications and platform components to meet automation requirements.
• Ensuring that software and infrastructure components are up-to-date and free of any security vulnerabilities
• Systematising and then documenting new and existing processes to help us tame our ever changing IT operations
• Working on automated provisioning of new servers and updating existing ones
• Working as part of an in-office team to collaborate directly with our experienced traders and technologists on brainstorming and implementing creative solutions to a wide range of problems.

Requirements

• Pursuing a BA/BS/MS Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related industry experience
• Must be fluent in Python (or any other programming language at the time of interview).
• Proficient with code collaboration tools (git, GitLab / GitHub / Bitbucket)
• Basics of container-based technology (Docker)
• Basic understanding of how infrastructure management tools work (Ansible or Puppet)
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Basic understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana.
•  Preferred:
  • Understanding of database design and administration.
  • Interest in financial markets and trading software.