About the job
As a Platform Application Specialist at Squarepoint Capital, you will play a pivotal technical role in the development and maintenance of essential platform infrastructure utilizing DevOps principles. You will collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, including developers, researchers, and infrastructure teams, to enhance, automate, and scale the solutions and services utilized throughout the organization.
Your responsibilities will include designing, monitoring, and scaling our platform infrastructure. You will have the chance to significantly influence the productivity and efficiency of our teams by improving operational workflows, developing CI/CD pipelines, creating self-service solutions, and directly enhancing the experiences of developers and researchers.
While you may possess deep expertise in specific areas, your contributions will span across our entire ecosystem. Our platform domains encompass:
- Observability: Monitoring, tracing, logging, and alerting infrastructure.
- Scheduling & Orchestration: HPC schedulers and container orchestration for compute-intensive workloads.
- Development Tools: CI/CD pipelines, version control, artifact repositories, and developer platforms.
- Middleware: Essential applications like messaging queues, service discovery, and load balancing.
- Databases: A broad spectrum of relational, NoSQL, and time-series database systems.
- Automation: Infrastructure automation, configuration management, and self-service enablement.

