System Engineer
About Exegy
Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading systems, and future-proof technology. Exegy serves as a trusted partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, and financial services technology firms around the globe. Headquartered in St. Louis with regional offices in North America, the UK/Europe and Asia Pacific, Exegy has the global footprint to deliver world-class support and managed services to its customer base of elite financial market participants.
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced System Engineer to join our Managed Services Engineering (MSE) team in St. Louis, MO. You will be our lead specialist in Linux systems, bare-metal provisioning, and infrastructure networking, building and maintaining the automation that turns bare-metal servers into production-ready platforms.
You will own our automated OS provisioning workflows, configuration management frameworks, Linux networking and routing services, and hardware validation tooling, and serve as a senior escalation resource for deployment and operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Bare-Metal Provisioning & OS Lifecycle: Design, maintain, and evolve automated provisioning workflows, including network boot environments, live boot images, and unattended Linux installations. Lead OS lifecycle work such as package and repository management, service administration, and platform upgrades
- Configuration Management & Automation: Build and maintain Puppet and Ansible automation, including custom modules, manifests, data hierarchies, and backend data stores
- Provisioning Tooling: Develop and support Python and Bash applications and scripts for preboot staging, hardware discovery, and automated hardware validation
- Linux Networking, Routing & Security: Administer, troubleshoot, and modernize Linux network services, including dynamic routing, VPN, proxy services, and SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management
- Server Hardware Validation: D...