Production Unix Linux Support Engineer - Electronic Trading Investment Bank
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Production Unix Linux Support Engineer - Electronic Trading Investment Bank
Good knowledge of financial markets and electronic trading
Unix/Linux skills
Electronic Equities - Algo trading, high frequency, low-latency trading, basket trading
ITRS Geneos
Good knowledge of FIX protocol and connectivity
Good knowledge of network technologies and protocols - specifically TCP and UDP
Basic Scripting and development skills (Unix/Linux shell, Python, Perl for scripting, any other programming language, eg C, C++, Java)
Basic SQL queries
Desirable skills:
Project management skills
Citrix, Splunk
Corvil
KDB/q
Solace
The team provides functional and technical support for all front and Back End components running on Windows and Linux environments.
The team also manages connectivity to the different electronic trading venues.
Production systems are installed worldwide.
Follow-the-sun support model is in place, involving teams in Europe, Asia and North America.
Systems are complex so as part of support activities the range of technical skills involved is wide.
All team members are expected to quickly develop, or already have, a good understanding of trading systems.
Out-of-hours work is regularly required particularly at weekends (once every 6 to 8 weeks), on a rota basis. The team can also provide on-call support.
Responsibilities:
Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, incident management, problem resolution activities, change management
Day-to-day support of, but not limited to, OMS/EMS, Algo platform, market gateways, market data, client gateways
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, infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems and improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency, new functionalities)
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
Inside IR35; Partly Remote
Adlam Consulting operates as an Employment Agency & an Employment Business Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location