Trade Floor Support - Application Engineer - London

  • Reference: 4156c
  • Location: London
  • Salary / Rate: up to 50 000
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Sector: Investment Banking, General IT
  • Date Posted: 11/08/2010
  • Trade floor support engineer required by highly advanced prop trading firm based in central London.

    Experience with trading exchanges, Unix and Linux, Scripting, Windows server, TCP/IP, Relational databases.

    Responsibilities:

    Deployment and maintenance of trading related applications and the environment
    Performance analysis and tuning of trading applications
    Liaising with end-users in regards to incidents and change requests
    Liaising with developers or third-party groups in relation to incidents and problems
    Liaise with various exchanges to carry out testing, upgrades, and problem resolution
    Reporting in regards to up-time, stability and performance of trading applications
    Create and maintain documentation regarding incident resolutions and solving problems
    Implement and maintain application monitoring
    Use scripting or other programming languages to automate processes and maintain the application environments

    Experience:

    Knowledge of ORC trader and backend systems essential (preferable)
    Experience in ORC of configuring and troubleshooting connectivity to various European exchanges (preferable)
    Experience with ORC's OP interface a plus
    Working on systems in a real-time environment
    Substantial of solid experience in UNIX and Linux systems management experience
    Scripting in a Linux/Unix environment
    Substantial experience in Windows server environment and associated troubleshooting skills
    Good understanding of TCP/IP networks
    Practical understanding of relational databases and in particular Informix
    Experience with large scale distributed transaction systems a plus
    Exposure to financial markets and systems used by financial firms required
    Experience with TBricks highly regarded


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Consultant Details

  • Consultant Name: Brett McGarrigle
  • Telephone: +44 207 256 3540
  • Email: Send email