Campus Systems Engineer (Full-Time)

Jump Trading; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical

Vision and Dental Insurance

Travel Medical Insurance

Group Pension Scheme

Group Life Assurance and Income Pro…

Paid Parental Leave

Parking and Cycle Schemes

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is seeking a Systems Engineer to optimize the trading environment and resolve system issues across global data centers. You will work with traders, operations, exchanges, and developers to ensure high availability and performance of the production platform.

The role requires a major in CS/Engineering or related field, strong Linux/UNIX skills, Python, and solid networking knowledge, with the ability to perform under pressure within a collaborative team.

Qualifications

• Major in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience with Linux/UNIX OS including shell scripting.
• Practical working knowledge of Python and networking concepts.

Responsibilities

• Proactively monitor health and performance of the trading platform.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking issues.
• Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for low-latency trading.
• Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment.
• Coordinate changes with risk management and trading teams; manage incidents.
• Define and document processes and procedures.

Skills

CS/Engineering degree

Linux/UNIX

Python

Networking basics

Pressure under control

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/IS

Job description

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

The Systems Engineer will work with traders, operations, exchanges, and developers to optimize the trading environment and investigate and solve system issues.

• Proactively monitor the overall health and performance of the trading platform
• Work closely with our world-class technology organization to:
  • Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues
  • Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low latency trading applications at various data centers throughout the world
• Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment
• Work closely with risk management and trading teams to coordinate changes and manage incidents
• Manage and assess operational risk of change control into the production environment
• Define and document process and procedure
• Other duties as assigned or needed

SKILLS YOU’LL NEED:

• Major in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
• Experience working with Linux/UNIX OS including advanced commands and shell scripts
• Practical working knowledge of python
• Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, ethernet
• A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations
• Ability to operate and communicate clearly under pressure
• Desire to work in a collaborative, team environment with a positive can do attitude
• Reliable and predictable availability

BENEFITS:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Cycle Schemes