ION MARKETVIEW eTrading Application Production Engineer - ION Linux Scripting - Investment Bank

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ION MARKETVIEW eTrading Application Production Engineer - ION Linux Scripting - Investment Bank

Strong all-around IT background and proven experience in electronic trading markets on similar environments.

Strong understanding of Linux (Redhat) operating systems to be able to tune operating systems platforms for optimum performance.

Essential skills:

Good Knowledge and experience of ION Technology

Scripting (Python, Shell, SQL....) and development skills for administration, monitoring and support tools.

Good network and Firewall infrastructure understanding.

Good understanding of multicast messaging (ideally in a Tibco Rendezvous environment).

Project management skills to deliver medium scale projects.

Ability to analyse network captures

Role/Experience required

This role is a position within the FX eTrading Application Production team in London. A global team providing services to the global FX business within Global Markets trading room. The team provides technical support for all Back End components running on FX eTrading environments (more than 600 Servers - Windows or Linux).

The team also manages connectivity to many electronic trading venues (ICAP/EBS, Reuters FX Matching, Currenex, HotSpot, LMAX, CME, Bloomberg, MOEX,....).

Production systems are mainly installed in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore and most of them live 24/5.

Follow-the-Sun support model is used involving teams in London, New York, Montreal, Singapore and Mumbai.

Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, problem resolution activities, change management.

Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimize impact to clients and internal users including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, other internal IT teams...

Assist in the development, design and implementation of technical support systems.

Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services.

Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems, improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency...).

Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs.

Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities.

Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with global team

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