Job Description:
Title: Trade Application Support
Location: Onsite in NYC (10167)
Duration: FTE/permanent
Salary: 100-135k range + bonus
Responsibilities:
- Live trade lifecycle monitoring and management with attention to follow up tasks and postmortems
- Post trade processing and resolving trade settlement issues in a timely manner
- System integration with development teams and external counterparties
- Software Deployment, Client Reporting Support, Investment and Operational Projects as needed
- Ownership of production footprint, e.g. identify system improvements, automate daily tasks, document existing and new workflows
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
- Hands on experience with low latency market data and order management systems, internal or third party
- Working knowledge of FIX trading protocol
- Technical proficiency with Python, Linux, SQL, Excel, AWS, ability to debug scripts and code
- DevOps experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Docker is a plus
- Strong analytical and detail-oriented aptitude; a high degree of accuracy is required
- Excellent communication and organizational skills with friendly demeanor
- Ability to manage time effectively, set priorities and meet deadlines, mentorship of junior members
Preferred:
- Knowledge of production alerts and adherence to SLA for remediation
- Experience in low latency trading platforms with integration utilizing FPGA's, microwave networks, multicast broadcast and point-to-point connections
- Experience with New Relic/Zabbix/PagerDuty and application monitoring frameworks
- Experience with Redwood RunMyJob and familiarity with Cron, or similar job scheduling frameworks
- Ability to troubleshoot network, authentication, and file transfer issues
- Familiar with AWS STS and S3, navigation on AWS console or equivalent cloud service
- Ability to work independently and automate daily tasks as much as possible in Bash and Python