IT Engineer

Fluent Trade Technologies is the fastest end-to-end data and trading technology provider in the FX, FI and Futures markets. Fluent is a market leader with a significant tier 1 and 2 client base in the financial world. Please visit us at

Location: Manila or any city in the Philippines. Long-term/permanent work from home.

• Handle all IT work, including firewall, security, and user VPN for both remote and office environments.
• Collaborate with all teams in the global company and handle requests to facilitate connectivity, access, and permissions to various applications.
• Work with the IT director on IT projects, including new proposals, overall design, and reporting via JIRA and email.
• Partner with DevOps/support teams to resolve issues.

• At least 5 years of experience as IT staff.
• Experience in third-party vendor/supplier management and coordination.
• Fluent English.
• Direct experience with US or EU customers.
• System administration proficiency in main Linux OS flavors: Red Hat/CentOS 6, 7, 8; Ubuntu.
• Windows administration proficiency; knowledge of current Windows releases (Windows 7/8/10) and Server versions (2008/2012); Remote Desktop.
• Scripting: at least one of Bash, Python, or Perl.
• Networking: FortiGate firewall setup; basic understanding of static routing and DHCP; basic Wi-Fi knowledge.
• IT automation using technologies such as Ansible.
• Solutions-oriented, fast-paced, team player.

• Experience with leading IT teams working with development groups.
• Infrastructure maintenance: LAMP, monitoring tools.
• Bug tracking systems (e.g., Jira, Bugzilla).
• Server configuration tools (e.g., OMSA, PSP).
• Monitoring: Nagios, Centreon, Zabbix; configuration management: Puppet, Chef, Salt.
• Configuration management: Makefile, Scons, RPMs, compilation and linkage; Phabricator.
• RHCE certificate.
• Advanced networking troubleshooting; Wi-Fi understanding.
• Fiber connectivity (single-mode and multi-mode); L3 routing protocols such as BGP; UDP unicast/multicast.
• Fortigate firewall configuration; VPN for clients.
• Low-latency switches such as Cisco Nexus, Dell Force10, Arista; Solarflare NICs.
• Remote or on-site server work.
• VoIP knowledge (SIP signaling, RTP, firewall considerations for SIP Trunks).
• Virtual machines and cloud: QEMU, Docker; cloud providers such as AWS, GCP; cloud networking.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development