Trading Systems Support Engineer

A leading quantitative trading firm are looking for an experienced trading operations and support engineer to join their HQ in Amsterdam.

As a member of our Trading Operations Team, you will work within our technology landscape to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems, as well as the related hardware. In this role, you will have ownership of technical related issues for our in house trading applications and your actions will directly contribute to the performance of the company. You will get the opportunity to interact and work closely with different departments to gain a well-rounded knowledge of our proprietary trading applications, how they function and how they are continuously developed.

In this role, you will act as an SRE, Operations Engineer and Developer.

What you will do

• Gain expertise of our latency sensitive trading application stacks, contribute towards troubleshooting in a fast paced environment and implement solutions
• Write, test and integrate monitoring solutions with APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications to provide insight to the health and performance of our trading environment
• Work closely with system administrators to understand and fine-tune Linux based trading environments using tools provided by the latest Linux distributions
• Work closely with Cloud SREs to operate our distributed systems landscape
• Work on our efforts to fully automate our infrastructure and application management
• Build, use and maintain CI / CD pipelines
• Conduct user acceptance testing across the internal application stacks and gain a deep understanding on how traders and supporting teams utilize our software
• Provide technical requirements to the development process to continuously improve the operational effectiveness of our applications
• Advance your Python or other scripting skills by working together with trading desks to identify and implement ways to automate complex workflows

What you need to succeed