ABOUT THE ROLE

How will you fulfill your potential?

• Collect, transform and visualize large data sets to make data driven commercial and technical decisions
• Introspect distributed systems from wire to application to gain insight into trading system behavior
• Engage with highly motivated clients to help drive commercial outcomes and solve complex problems
• Operate in a dynamic working environment with fluid priorities, requires the ability to context switch and adapt to time sensitive issues
• Build high-performance, large scale distributed trading environments using automation
• Leverage broad engineering remits, affording opportunities to explore innovative hardware and software offerings
• Display technical ownership and visibility across the firm
• Drive the concepts of chaos engineering & conduct wargaming exercises to fortify our trading plant

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications

• BSc or Master’s degree
• 2+ years recent hands-on experience in software industry or related DevOps/SRE role
• 2+ years of experience with monitoring and service management tools such as PagerDuty, AppDynamics, Splunk and Service Now

Preferred Qualifications

• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• Hands on experience working on software delivery concepts such as DevOps and SRE in an Agile mindset
• Experience with production change management practices and strong knowledge of SDLC
• Experience with trading environments (colocation, exchange networks, protocols, etc.)
• Development experience development and live operations (reading code, debugging etc.) relating to in one or more of the following technologies is a plus: Python, Golan, JavaScript, Java, Linux shell scripting and networking stacks
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern automation tools (Ansible, Salt, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with open-source monitoring and metrics collections (Nagios, TICK, Prometheus, etc.)
• Understanding of networking concepts, including routing protocols – BGP, OSPF, multicast, etc.
• Proficient in the use of task management tooling such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills preferred as the team interfaces directly with senior stakeholders, external clients, and internal technology stakeholders
• Experience performance tuning Linux systems preferred