Career Developers, Inc. · 2 weeks ago
Application Support - Trading floor Applications (Linux/FIX/Python/SQL)
Manhattan, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expCareer Developers Inc. is a distinguished staffing and consulting firm celebrating 30 years of service excellence. They are seeking an Application Support professional to manage global trading platform readiness, provide monitoring and support for transaction flow, and interact with various teams to improve processes and resolve issues.
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Responsibilities
Manage global trading platform readiness: pre-trading & post-trading
Provide monitoring and support for end-to-end transaction flow across the trading platform
Quickly identify, analyze, and correct alerts & issues and/or escalate to minimize trade flow impact and preempt outages
Incident management: create and send reports following the established process
Intensive interaction with the trading community, back office operations, brokers, exchanges, development, and infrastructure teams
Support scheduled changes: application deployments, network implementations, and server maintenance
Oversee automated processes, scheduled jobs, and regular reports
Manage users' requests: track requests, review approvals, updates, resolutions, and closures
Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes, and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation and collaboration with internal and external teams
Qualification
Required
Hands-on trade flow support experience is a must
Proficient in Linux OS
Proficiency with Bash and a scripting language such as Python or Perl is required
Detailed practical knowledge of FIX. Ideally, familiarity with native exchange protocols
Experience in SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL)
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject
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 brokers, exchanges, and internal teams
Self-motivated individual who takes initiative and has an ownership & accountability mindset
Must show the ability to make quick decisions and establish priorities in a multi-tasking & fast-paced environment
Experience with the Atlassian stack (JIRA, Service Desk, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo), Elastic Stack, and Nagios
Preferred
Familiarity with Kdb+ is a plus
Working knowledge with TCP/IP, multicast, tcpdump, clocking (PTP, NTP) – a plus
Knowledge of ITIL is an advantage
Company
Career Developers, Inc.
Career Developers, located in West Palm Beach and has been serving the NY Metro area for 3 decades! We are an experienced, full-service agency providing permanent placement as well as consulting/contracting services.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase