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.

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 3-5 years experience in a Front Office Trading Floor or related application support experience.

- 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 operational triage; leveraging logs, performance telemetry metrics and traces to make Grafana dashboards (or similar).

- Strong experience deploying and managing Cloud infrastructure with providers like AWS, Azure and/or GCP (accounts, profiles, IAM roles, Policies, service classes, instance types, etc.

- Strong experience adapting workloads to use Cloud Native technologies, like kubernetes and docker etc.

(Dockerfile, docker-compose, helm charts, deploy manifest, ingress wiring, service mesh, etc.

- Expertise using devops deployment tooling, like Github Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD and Ansible.

- Hands-on experience developing in one or more programming languages : C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.

- Proficient in utilizing C++ build systems such as CMake and building CI/CD pipelines for trading systems.

- Working knowledge of key backing services like mysql, PostgresDB, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.

Key attributes critical to success :

- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate confidently and clearly with internal teams and external counterparts.

- Ability to analyse complex scenarios from both a technical and business perspective and deliver solutions.

- A sense of urgency, and an ability to deliver to deadlines in an environment where multiple competing requirements are a part of the job.

- Proactivity and a strong ownership ethos, ensuring that queries are resolved through to completion.

- Desire and ability to deliver improvements to the platform.

Preferred Qualification :

- Extensive experience with DevOps for Deployment automation and App level support, as well as SRE and/or Linux systems Administrator for systems and infrastructure level support.

- Extensive experience in a Low Latency Electronic trading environment, where high performance is critical at all stages of the infrastructure, network and application design and implementation.

- Expertise in developing advanced observability capabilities (USE-RED signals, Tracing, front end observability etc).

Bonus Points :

- Experience with hardware acceleration technologies (FPGAs, GPUs, LPU, TPU).

- Experience with financial data security regulations (PCI DSS, SOC 2).

- Familiarity with algorithmic trading strategies and quantitative analysis concepts.