FX eTrading Application Production Engineer

Hybrid Working - London - 3 days a week on site.

Financial Services

Lorien's leading Financial Services Client is looking for a FX eTrading Application Production Engineer to join the existing team on an existing long-term project.

This role is based in London.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of 3 days a week on site.

This role is a position within the FX trading Application Production team in London which is part of the GM APS Flow and Digital department (Application Production & Support). This a global team providing services to the global business Global Markets trading room.

The team provides technical support for all Back End components running on FX eTrading environments (more than 600 production Servers - Windows or Linux) as well as interconnections with many external trading venues and other internal systems.

Production platforms are mainly installed in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore and most of them live 24/5. Follow-the-Sun support model is used involving teams in London, New York, Montreal, Singapore and Mumbai.

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 eTrading systems (not necessarily FX).

All engineers within the team have applications (mainly proprietary software) and technologies allocated to them and they are expected to take ownership and be or quickly become experts in these areas.

Out of hours work is regularly required, particularly at weekends on a rota basis. On-call support is also provided by the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, problem resolution activities, change management.
• 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, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems, improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency).
• 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

Candidate Profile:

• For this role specifically, we need candidates with strong Python Scripting skills as key requirement will be ability to develop tools for the benefit of our production teams as well as develop further automation within our global platforms
• Strong understanding of Linux (Redhat) operating systems to be able to tune operating systems platforms for optimum performance
• Strong all-around IT background and ideally experience in electronic trading markets on similar environments

Essential skills:

• Scripting (Python, Shell, SQL) and development skills for administration, monitoring and support tools
• Very good knowledge of DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory
• Good knowledge of common monitoring tools (ITRS Geneos, Zabbix)
• Good network and Firewall infrastructure understanding
• Good understanding of multicast messaging
• Project management skills to deliver medium scale projects

Personal Attributes:

• Team player
• Self-motivated
• Strong analytical skills, follow-up capability and problem-solving ability
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Capable of prioritizing tasks and multi-tasking projects
• Flexible and adaptable to new environments. Quickly learn new systems/products

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Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.