Systems Engineer

JOIN OUR TEAM!

All Options is growing and therefore we are looking for a versatile Systems Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure team to take shared ownership of our existing infrastructure and to define, implement and manage the internal high performance side of the IT environment.

WHO ARE WE

‍Established in 1998, we're a fully regulated proprietary trading firm that thrives as a liquidity provider (market maker) on Europe's most prominent option exchanges. With our base in Amsterdam and our recently opened office in Austin, Texas, we're on a mission to leverage our expertise and scale our success by implementing proven trading strategies in the world's largest financial market, the USA. This offers you an exciting opportunity to be part of our expansion journey.

Our true strength lies not just in what we do, but in how we collaborate and grow together, making every moment at All Options stimulating and profoundly rewarding. We firmly believe that our team members should consistently feel both challenged and supported.

WHAT YOU’LL DO AS A SYSTEMS ENGINEER

As a proprietary trading firm, we balance high processing requirements and low latency within the physical constraints of rack space geography. As we significantly expand our trading footprint, we are starting to build an internal Platform as a Service framework to provide a lean abstraction of the (physical/virtualized) hardware layer on which the software layer runs.

As a Systems Engineer you will share ownership of our current infrastructure with your colleagues. We expect you to become very familiar with our internal server setups, our network topology as well as our external (cloud) providers and core software to take part in the support to ensure the plant runs securely, reliably and smoothly.

Key responsibilities:

• Defining our platform setup;
• Migrate old setups to the new design and continuously improve the setups;
• Implementing new installations. Together with the development team and software vendor, arranging new server deployments and connecting to exchanges;
• Maintaining a proper backup and disaster recovery environment;
• Analyzing and troubleshooting any issues that may arise, liaising with the development team, the vendor and/or an Exchange as necessary.

WHO ARE YOU

We are looking for someone with at least 5 years of relevant working experience in IT systems administration and/or engineering. You check the box of the majority of the requirements below and/or have the willingness to learn:

• Experience with Linux systems administration.
• Experience in setting up and managing a Kubernetes cluster, docker containers and container registry.
• Experience with automation, shell scripting and familiarity with CI/CD.
• Basic knowledge in working with Git server and tool.
• Experience with networking (e.g. DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, firewalls).
• Understanding of virtualization technologies and storage provisioning (e.g. VMware) is a plus.
• Experience with industry common monitoring tools (Solarwinds, Nagios, Zabbix)
• Experience with protocol analyzer tools (e.g. Wireshark, tcpdump, Fiddler)
• Experience with datacenter-work, like racking equipment, cabling
• Drive to provide clear documentation to create a proper legacy of contributions and achievements.
• Good communication skills, a real team player and self-starter, who is capable of thinking out-of-the-box;

WHAT WE’LL OFFER

• A remuneration package comprised including bonus opportunity and a pension-scheme
• Continuous Learning & Development opportunities
• Well-being allowance and a bicycle plan
• 29 vacation days
• NS Business Card
• An Hybrid work environment including a full home set up
• Opportunity to work from abroad
• A nutritious in-house breakfast and lunch
• Monthly drinks and other festivities to celebrate our successes!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPOYER

All Options is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any type of background.

READY TO APPLY?

If all of the above aligns with your interest we’d welcome you to apply by submitting your CV & Cover Letter. We will carefully review your application and will get back to you within one week.

If you match the requirements we will contact you to start up the application process. The process consists different stages. If we’re both enthusiastic after the several rounds, we’d love to welcome you to our team!