6 month contract - Inside IR35 - Investment Banking
This role is a position within the FX eTrading 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 FX business within CIB 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 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.
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