Datacentre Operations

The Firm

XTX Markets is an algorithmic trading firm that actively trades tens of thousands of instruments on over eighty venues with a daily volume of almost three hundred billion USD. We partner with counterparties, exchanges, and e-trading venues globally to provide consistent liquidity in the Equity, FX, Fixed Income, Commodity & Options markets, helping market participants throughout the world obtain the best prices in the various assets classes we cover.

We leverage the talent of the people who work here, modern computational techniques and state-of-the-art research infrastructure to analyse large data sets across markets quickly and efficiently, to maximise the effectiveness of our proprietary trading algorithms. The models that drive our trading strategies have evolved considerably over the last 10 years, from econometric methods that gave our company its name, to trees, to neural networks, to modern deep learning architectures. We are actively seeking new methods and ideas.

At XTX Markets technology is our business and we are a diverse organisation which attracts outstanding talent from across all industry backgrounds. We are focused on teamwork and our people collaborate on all aspects of the business, working openly and with respect for each other, our clients and the market. Our culture is non-hierarchical and one where everyone is valued. We strive for excellence in everything we do.

 

The Role

We are looking to add to our Datacentre Operations team to help run the physical layer of XTX’s datacentre infrastructure, which consists of thousands of servers spread over tens of datacentres around the world.

The position is based in our Singapore office but will require occasional international travel to datacentres predominantly based Asia. 

 

Responsibilities

• You will be a principal point of call for the deployment of new infrastructure in Asia (servers, switches, cross connects and so forth).
• You will supervise and execute large projects (e.g., moving large amounts of equipment between sites) and maintain our datacentres (e.g., replacing failed components).
• You will be responsible for installing and maintaining a well-ordered datacentre infrastructure (e.g., designing, installing, and maintaining labelled, structured cabling, or power, space and cooling capacity monitoring and expansion).
• You will play a key role on inventory management and logistics, including the challenges of international shipping and supply chains.
• You will perform server integration work (e.g., fitting additional components into servers).
• You will coordinate with third parties regarding server support.
• An ideal candidate would also be interested in participating in platform design. This would involve selecting, specifying, or customising servers for XTX considering requirements such as power, cooling, and the pros and cons of different CPU SKUs.

 

Essential Attributes

• You will have extensive experience working in datacentres with a good understanding of high-speed networking (for example different kinds of fibre and transceivers).
• You will be comfortable working inside servers (for example installing PCIe cards).
• You will ideally understand optical networks.
• You will be familiar with the mechanics and intricacies of international shipping.
• Due to the nature of our trading, some work would necessarily have to happen during weekends, as such flexibility to work on Saturdays (with time-off in lieu) or a willingness to work a shifted week (for example Tuesday through Saturday) would be necessary.