Description
Production Unix Linux Support Engineer - Script/Geneos - Derivatives, Cash Equity eTrading
We are looking for 2-3 people with the following skill set for our client
- Unix/Linux skills
- ITRS Geneos
- Scripting languages
- Good knowledge of financial markets and electronic trading
- Nice to have - Electronic Equities - Algo trading, high frequency, low-latency trading, basket trading/Derivatives ETD/Cash Equity
- 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
3 Roles - TEAM FIT
- SRE (Site reliability engineer) profile - very technical, infrastructure, Scripting, Unix and Network skills. Monitoring tools (Geneos)
- Functional support profile - specifically Cash Equity Execution business experience, supporting OMS, algos
- Functional support profile - specifically ETD (derivatives) Execution business experience, supporting OMS, algos with knowledge of fix and preference for someone that worked on Derivative post trade and clearing (as extra)
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