Site Reliability Engineer - Chicago, United States - NinjaTrader

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    Are you looking to make your mark working for a financial services company? Do you want to be part of the team that will transform the online trading industry? NinjaTrader is seeking an experienced and talented Site Reliability Engineer who wants to make a difference by pushing the limits of technology. We are building state of the art solutions for online futures trading by challenging ourselves to deliver a creative, intuitive, and scalable user experience to our customers. Successful candidates will be talented technicians and innovative thinkers who are driven to make a difference and help change an industry long held back by yesterday's technology.

    In this role, you will:

    • Perform application and system performance tuning
    • Plan, Deploy, and support new servers and applications and tooling
    • Install, configure, optimize, and administer databases
    • Able to create simple tooling or automation using one or more programming languages
    • Configure, optimize and manage GKE deployment scripts
    • Configure, optimize and maintain a variety of Google Cloud services
    • Ensure proper monitoring and logging
    • Troubleshoot customer's, Corp office and data center network/hardware problems
    • Design and create methods for automating patching and IAM requests
    • Ensure that documented security policies and procedures are kept and helps to formulate new procedures
    • Train colleagues on best practices and areas of personal expertise

    Key Job Requirements:

    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline. Advanced degree preferred but not required
    • Expertise with GCP Products, such as: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Logging Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Load Balancing
    • GCP Professional Certification preferred
    • Proven and strong communication skills
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