Linux Administration

At Pace Stock Broking Services Pvt Ltd :

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Pace is a prominent brokerage firm in India, with memberships across NSE, BSE, MCX, and NCDEX. Leveraging our extensive experience in Indian markets, we have established an advanced high-frequency trading system, driven by a team of industry-leading experts from top HFT firms.

Responsibilities :

- Perform regular health checks and monitoring of overall infrastructure

- Configure, deploy, and manage Linux services on bare-metal servers

- Manage and maintain SLURM clusters and distributed storage system

- Handle networking setup including routing, VLANs, bonding, and NIC tuning

- Server provisioning, OS installation, and infrastructure standardization

- Manage drivers, packages, kernel modules, and firmware updates

- Perform performance tuning, overclocking, and low-latency optimizations

- Benchmark different kernels, server configurations, and hardware setups

- Automate routine operational tasks using scripts and configuration tools

- Troubleshoot system, network, and performance-related issues

Required Skills :

- Hands-on experience with Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma)

- Basic understanding of server hardware, BIOS, firmware, and networking

- Knowledge of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, routing, and VLANs

- Shell scripting (Bash); Python is a plus

- Exposure to automation tools like Ansible or similar

- Familiarity with performance and benchmarking tools (fio, iperf, sysbench, perf)

Good to have :

- Exposure to SLURM or HPC environments

- Knowledge of distributed storage (Ceph, GlusterFS, Lustre, NFS)

- Understanding of kernel tuning, NUMA, CPU pinning, and HugePages

- Experience with low-latency or high-performance computing environments

- Exposure to data center or bare-metal infrastructure

Why should you join us?

Good Peers and a relaxed work environment : While everyone believes in hard work, we like to have fun and keep the working environment light, engaging, positive, and open to new ideas.

Cutting-edge technology : HFT industry drives a lot of innovation in hardware, computer networking, and the fintech domain. Be at the forefront of this evolution while working with us.

Competitive compensation : The HFT industry is well-known for compensating its employees well. If you're willing to put in the hard work, the possibilities are endless.

Benefits : Catered Breakfast & Lunch, Well stocked pantry, Group Health Insurance, 4 week annually leaves along with market holiday