SSUSA Job #695: Senior Trading Application Support Engineer-Perm or consulting

Job Description

TRADING APPLICATION SUPPORT ENGINEER

Successful candidates will have significant experience installing, configuring, troubleshooting, documenting, certifying, and operating high-availability real-time distributed applications, coupled with exceptional operational acumen in terms of change management and incident management.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

As a Senior Production Support role, candidates need to be flexible regarding work schedule and support hours to ensure proper coverage. The candidate will focus on production implementation and support based on standard practices and documentation.

Our financial client is looking for a successful candidate with significant experience working with high availability  real time distributed trading applications that can also handle change and incident  management.

Skills

The candidate will focus on production implementation and support based on standard practices and documentation.  Candidate should know the processes, commands and configuration files required for implementation and support.

           Must be accurate and thorough in all work

  • At least 7yrs + experience in handling production operations & support of an Electronic

     Trading System in a Unix/Linux environment – preferably a high frequency trading system.

  • Must have power user knowledge of Unix/Linux Operating Systems

  • Working knowledge of basic network tools (ssh, ping, netstat, tcpdump, traceroute, etc)

  • Experience in production operations / support needed, preferably with trading systems

  • Scripting skills 3 – 5+ years’ experience – Perl, Python and Bash required

  • Experience with Change Control and Configuration Management systems a plus

  • Unix/Linux System Administration experience is a major plus

  • Network Engineering experience is a plus

  • Experience working with NasdaqOMX CLICK or Genium a major plus.

  • Should have experience with distributed systems and client server architectures

  • Experience with performance testing and tuning of distributed systems desirable

  • Some experience with Oracle Databases a plus

  • Some Application Development experience with C, C++, or Java is a plus

     

    SEND YOUR RESUME IN CONFIDENCE TO CLIFF@SSUSA.COM

     

 

Job Location
New York City

Position Type
Consulting

Salary Range
TBD