Support Analyst - Electronic Trading - Banking - Hong Kong

HK  ‐ Onsite
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Support Analyst - Electronic Trading - Banking - Hong Kong

The electronic equity trading business at a major investment bank has a great opportunity for a technically astute individual with excellent communication skills to assume a role in Hong Kong as an operational support analyst for a best of breed, highly complex in house strategic risk management platform. Your primary responsibility will be split two ways, the first maintaining the high availability of the grid based platform infrastructure which will involve considerable network and OS troubleshooting, the second supporting a number of demanding developers within the banks equity trading group who are regularly releasing new code onto the platform and require regular support with release and deployment.

This is a high pressure production environment that requires a dynamic individual who can take responsibility for all infrastructure issues related to the platform, run BC planning & capacity reviews and manage on-going maintenance. The risk platform is Red Hat 5 Linux based, highly distributed and written in Python.

The IT group is looking for someone who thrives on pressure and comes from a very technical background, primarily in Linux/Unix administration with a strong bias toward network level troubleshooting. You will have a background within the investment banking/trading sector and be experienced supporting a complex infrastructure which supports applications written in different languages. Along with your in depth infrastructure and networking knowledge, you will also have a sound understanding of SAN technologies, systems monitoring tools, database technologies and hardware components. Python or Perl Scripting skills will be very useful an understanding of grid computing environments.

You will be a strong team player and exhibit exemplary verbal and written communication skills and a deep understanding of the complexities of Investment Banking infrastructure particularly when pertaining to trading platforms which demand high availability.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Hatstand Ltd
Published at
17.02.2012
Project ID:
318332
Contract type
Freelance
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