Trade Flow Support - London, United Kingdom - Squarepoint

Squarepoint

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

5 days ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Group:
Technology Operations

Position:
Trade Flow Support - Trading Infrastructure Support

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients.

We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research.

As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms.

With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

Job Summary:

Main Responsibilities:

Provide monitoring and L1/L2 support across all services and quickly react to any outages to maintain a highly available environment
Quickly identify, analyze and correct alerts & issues and/or escalate to minimize trade flow impact and preempt outages
Intensive interaction with trading community, external vendors, development and infrastructure teams
Oversee automated processes, scheduled jobs and regular reports
Manage users' requests: track requests, review approvals, updates, resolution, closure, etc.
Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation, collaboration with internal and external teams.

Qualifications:

2+ years of support experience a must
Experience in Linux/Unix administration (RHEL/CentOS/OEL preferred)
Proficiency in Python, Bash scripting
Good working knowledge of storage and different storage protocols (nfs gpfs a plus)
Experience with Infrastructure automation (Chef, Puppet or Ansible)
Experience with Kafka or like messaging buses
Experience with CICD tooling
Experience with Monitoring infrastructure (ELK and Prometheus preferred)
Database administration experience (MySql or PosgreSql preferred)
Experience in container software administration (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, GKE or Helm preferred)
Working knowledge with TCP/IP, multicast, tcpdump, clocking (PTP, NTP)
Ability to navigate network equipment command line

Preferred Qualifications:

Highly organized, detailed, control oriented, enjoys solving problems and brings in a "take charge" attitude
Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with internal teams, external vendors and service providers
Selfmotivated individual that takes initiatives and has an ownership & accountability mindset
Must show the ability to make quick decisions and establish priorities in a multitasking & fastpaced environment
Knowledge of ITIL is an advantage.