Graduate Site Reliability Engineer 2024/2025

At IMC, our Systems Engineers are responsible for maintaining a robust, best-in-class, extremely low-latency Linux trading environment. Getting the right balance of speed and quality is crucial to what we do. Utilising and developing a wide range of tools, Systems Engineers look to automate all aspects of the platform.
Your Core Responsibilities:

• Start with a three-week international traineeship in one of our global offices, becoming familiar with the different areas of our business while being trained by the world's best engineers and traders.
• Focus on enhancing your knowledge and ability to operate a wide range of tools using a combination of in-house courses and trading simulations designed by experienced Traders and Engineers.
• Understand how trading systems work, so you can support IMC's day-to-day trading activities.
• Learn how automation and CI/CD allow us to deploy hardware and software solutions rapidly and repeatably.
• Collaborate with traders and other engineers to bring our trading strategies and platform to the next level.
• Have continuous opportunities to learn new technologies and programming languages in our dynamic environment.
• Develop, maintain and improve the management of hardware and software systems at scale.
• Be supported by a mentor specifically chosen to work with you and guide you through each step of your traineeship and onboarding process.
• Assume real responsibility from day one and make decisions that directly impact company profits.

Your Skills and Experience:

• An academic background in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology or a related field of study with a minimum Distinction average, or equivalent.
• Experience working with Linux operating systems.
• Interest in deploying, running and monitoring applications. Knowledge of Docker or other DevOps tools is a plus.
• Experience with Python and/or Bash scripting.
• DevOps focused mindset with a comprehensive view of technology environments.
• Broad experience across Mongo, MySQL, Java, networking, and Puppet is beneficial but not a prerequisite.
• Willingness to interact and work closely with Traders and Engineers in a fast-paced and constantly-changing environment.

About Us
IMC is a leading trading firm, known worldwide for our advanced, low-latency technology and world-class execution capabilities. Over the past 30 years, we've been a stabilizing force in the financial markets - providing the essential liquidity our counterparties depend on. Across offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented employees are united by our entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional culture, and commitment to giving back. It's a strong foundation that allows us to grow and add new capabilities, year after year. From entering dynamic new markets, to developing a state-of-the-art research environment and diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to imagine what could be and work together to make it happen.