IT Operations Support Engineer (Contract Role)

As a key part of the IT Operations team, you will maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize high-performance, low-latency infrastructure for financial trading systems. This role focuses on ensuring the resilience and security of systems located at global exchanges, running on enterprise bare-metal hardware, FPGA-accelerated components, and low-latency network architectures. You'll work directly on infrastructure where nanosecond-level latency decisions have real financial consequences.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting, tuning, and optimizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems for low-latency, high-performance execution
• Maintaining highly available routing and multicast environments using BGP, OSPF, PIM, and IGMP
• Designing and implementing security controls and disaster recovery procedures for mission-critical financial infrastructure
• Leading maintenance windows and operational upgrades with internal teams and external partners
• Improving configuration management, observability, and operational tooling using Ansible, Zabbix, and Python