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PIMCO · 4 months ago

Trade Floor Support Engineer – Municipal Trading

San Diego, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$125K/yr - $140K/yr

2+ years exp

PIMCO is a leading global asset management firm that helps millions of investors pursue their financial goals. They are seeking an operationally savvy Developer to support Muni trading and execution, acting as the main point of contact for business users of a complex trading platform and providing both day-to-day support and continual improvement of technology platforms.

BankingCrowdfundingFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Building telemetry and observability solutions

Incident analysis and mitigation

Facilitating blameless postmortems - including designing and implementing solutions to avoid reoccurrence

Analyze effort patterns (user queries, service requests, incidents, workflows) for optimization and toil reduction

Plan, lead, supervise and optimize the production related software and infrastructure for capacity and resiliency

Leveraging of AI and next-generation toolsets to scale team capacity / efficiency / improve platform uptime

Tight collaboration with development, infrastructure and third-party vendor teams

Qualification

PythonC#System administrationCloud technologiesRDBMS proficiencyITIL conceptsMonitoring softwareCuriosityInterpersonal skillsProblem solving

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a STEM related field

2+ years of professional experience working in support of a trading business / end users within a financial services company

Experience with scripting / coding / software development in at least one major language

Strong focus on automation of routine tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention

Proven expertise in troubleshooting complex technical issues, managing incidents end-to-end, and implementing robust problem resolution strategies in a high-pressure trading environment

System and network administration and troubleshooting skills (Unix and Windows), cloud related technologies (Kubernetes, AWS, Azure), and knowledge of infrastructure components (e.g. routers, load balancers, compute, storage, and networks)

Proficiency with any major RDBMS

Understanding of ITIL concepts (Incident, Problem, Change, Configuration management)

Systematic, fact-based decision making and problem solving

Strong curiosity and bias for pro-active planning, action, ownership, learning and continuous improvement

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to nurture relationships with all internal/external partners, promoting diversity of perspectives, ideas and culture

Familiarity / Experience with monitoring software tooling (Datadog, Solar Winds, ITRS Geneos, Dynatrace, Jaeger, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk etc.)

Understanding and practical application of SRE principles (SLI/SLO/Error Budget, etc.)

Preferred

Experience in the Muni area a plus - but open to experience in any asset class

Python and/or C# experience preferred - but Java, C, C++, or any major language is acceptable

Experience working with AI / Prompt Engineering a plus

Benefits

Education reimbursements

Ongoing training in technology, communication, and diversity & inclusion

Company

PIMCO

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PIMCO, a global investment solutions provider that manages investments for public and private pension and retirement plans and other assets.

Founded in 1971

Newport Beach, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.pimco.com

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