Systems Engineer

About this role

Aquatic Capital Management seeks an experienced Systems Engineer to architect and manage compute infrastructure supporting quantitative research and trading operations. You'll own on-premise and hybrid cloud systems including Slurm/Ray clusters, high-performance storage, and GPU workloads while mentoring junior engineers and driving infrastructure improvements.

What you'll do

• Own and evolve Slurm and Ray cluster infrastructure across on-premise and GCP environments
• Manage high-performance storage systems (VAST) and resolve performance bottlenecks across storage, network, and compute
• Design provisioning systems for compute resources and maintain CI/CD infrastructure (GitHub Actions)
• Architect infrastructure decisions, provide technical direction, and mentor earlier-career engineers
• Diagnose and resolve complex system issues across the full computing footprint
• Evaluate and implement new compute paradigms as research needs evolve

What they're looking for

• Unix/Linux systems administration across multiple distributions
• HPC grid systems (SLURM expertise required)
• High-performance/parallel storage systems (VAST, GPFS, Lustre)
• Scripting and automation (Bash, Python)
• Bare-metal infrastructure and datacenter provisioning
• Distributed compute frameworks (Ray, Dask, Spark preferred)
• GPU computation and performance optimization
• Cloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS experience)