Senior Virtualization Engineer (OpenStack) | Elite trading firm

Senior Virtualization Engineer (OpenStack) | Elite trading firm | Austin/ChicagoI’m hiring for a leading quantitative trading firm investing in its private cloud infrastructure. This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer to shape the platform itself: how resources are provisioned, how workloads perform and how the infrastructure scales as demand grows.You’ll influence architecture and tooling, alongside hands-on engineering across Linux, virtualization, storage and networking. There’s broad ownership to make design decisions, build automation and investigate complex performance and reliability problems, with the resources to deliver lasting improvements.RequirementsStrong experience engineering private cloud or large-scale virtualization environments, with substantial OpenStack expertise.Deep Linux knowledge and confidence troubleshooting across compute, storage and networking.Experience building infrastructure automation and reusable tooling.Evidence of improving production systems through architectural changes, performance tuning or better operational practices.Comfortable scripting or programmingPrior trading experience isn’t required. I’m interested in engineers who can explain what they’ve built, the decisions behind it and the improvements they delivered.The role can be based out of their Chicago or Austin office.If that sounds like you, apply now or drop me an email for more info: lenny@acquireme.io