Senior Trading System Support Engineer

Responsibilities

• Be part of a trading systems engineering team, dedicated to building out the core trading platforms.
• Work closely with cross functional teams to improve the system reliability, scalability and security.
• Engage in and improve the quality supporting the platform.
• Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation.
• Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform.
• Work on improvements to bring in high efficiency, reduce latency, deploy systems faster.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
• Implement and maintain rigorous security best practices across all infrastructure, with a focus on minimizing attack surface and ensuring data integrity.
• Monitor system health and performance with a keen eye for identifying and resolving issues before they affect trading activity.
• Manage user queries and service requests (often requiring in depth analysis of the technical and/or business logic of our systems).
• Proactive approach to problem analysis and resolution of production incidents.
• Manage Issue tracking and prioritisation of day to day production incidents.
• Manage platform trading support initiatives (e.g. platform monitoring, reporting, release automation).

 Minimum Qualification

• Bachelors with 5+ years of working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer
• Strong knowledge of Linux system internals (kernels, memory management, file systems & network I/O optimization) as well as bash scripting.
• Minimum 5+ years experience in a Front Office Trading Floor or related application support experience.
• Need to be available to work in US (Night) Shift
• Good product knowledge in financial instruments including experience in managing front to back trading lifecycle and familiar with order life cycle (Equities, FX, Crypto etc).
• Experience with electronic trading platforms and OMS/EMS systems.
• Knowledge of ITIL practices including Incident, Problem and Change management.
• Experience with system monitoring platforms.
• Proven expertise optimizing systems for lowest latency performance and productionizing trading systems, from initial concept to full deployment, including on-prem and colocation.
• Strong working knowledge of network communications fundamentals TCP/IP and UDP
• Knowledge of FIX protocol, as well as familiarity with low latency multicast with Aeron.
• Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, with a willingness to dive-deep to determine the root cause, 
• Effective communicator, with the ability to explain root causes in plain language, then outline plans and recommendations to remediate and ultimately to execute plans that systematically resolve issues.
• Demonstrated ability to build tools that enable rapid op