Experienced/Lateral - Linux Systems Administrator

📋 Job Overview

Five Rings is a proprietary trading firm founded with a vision of combining strategy, innovation and technology to succeed in today’s global markets. With offices in New York, Boca Raton, London and Amsterdam, Five Rings trades in various domestic and international markets, both established and esoteric. Our team constantly seeks new opportunities, analyzes their risks and rewards, and creates strategies and tools to capitalize on them.

We have an open culture and encourage the flow of knowledge and ideas between all areas of the firm.

🏢 About Five Rings

Five Rings is a proprietary trading firm founded with a vision of combining strategy, innovation and technology to succeed in today’s global markets. With offices in New York, Boca Raton, London and Amsterdam, Five Rings trades in various domestic and international markets, both established and esoteric. Our team constantly seeks new opportunities, analyzes their risks and rewards, and creates strategies and tools to capitalize on them.

We have an open culture and encourage the flow of knowledge and ideas between all areas of the firm.

🎯 The Role

We are seeking a hands-on professional for our growing systems administration team.

Systems Administrators are responsible for the workstations and servers of our rapidly expanding trading operations. In addition to all systems work both on the desktops and in the datacenters, Five Rings Systems Administrators frequently interact with users at various levels all across our organization.

We are a Linux shop both on the server side and the trader desktops.

Our firm runs Windows servers very rarely and Windows desktops as needed.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Installations of workstations on our trading floors and in offices
• Installations of servers and networking appliances in data centers, sometimes requiring travel

📌 Required Qualifications

• Fluency in Linux administration is a must
• Experience in Debian/Ubuntu preferred
• Strong communication skills
• A demonstrated ability to work tasks to completion and tolerate frequent context switches
• Experience with:
• BIND
• Ansible
• Linux KVM
• Zabbix
• Google workplace collaboration and productivity tools
• Some Windows administration skills are a plus, but not required
• Experience scripting in bash and python is preferred, SQL and Perl a plus
• Knowledge of cybersecurity tools including 2FA, iptable rulesets, Malwarebytes, fail2ban, etc.
• Ability to move and install equipment weighing up to 50lbs
• Preference to apply a breadth of experience towards varied responsibilities in a small-shop environment
• Comfortable with hands-on work, racking and stacking in datacenters is commonplace

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Large-scale build-outs, sometimes requiring travel, both domestic and international
• Installations of office appliances such as printers, phones, televisions, etc.

🎁 Benefits

Annual base salary is $300,000. Total compensation packages are comprised of base salary and a discretionary bonus.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This role will be fully in-person based out of New York City.