FX eTrading Application Production engineer in London

Energy Jobline ZR; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global energy job board is seeking a candidate for a 6-month contract role in London. The position involves managing production for FX eTrading environments and requires strong Python scripting and Linux skills. The ideal candidate will have experience in electronic trading markets and provide technical support and automation for production teams. Collaboration with various departments is essential for improving system performance and resilience.

Qualifications

• Strong Python scripting skills to develop automation tools.
• Understanding of Linux for performance tuning.
• Experience in electronic trading environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage production: monitor, resolve issues, and conduct change management.
• Liaise with end users and coordinate with vendors for issue resolution.
• Assist in the development of technical support systems.
• Implement upgrades and improve system resilience.

Skills

Python scripting skills

Linux (Redhat) operating systems

IT background

Electronic trading markets experience

Tools

DevOps tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory)

Monitoring tools (ITRS Geneos, Zabbix)

Job description

Overview

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

6 month contract - Inside IR35 - Investment Banking

This role is a position within the FX eTrading Application Production team in London which is part of the GM APS Flow and Digital department (Application Production & Support). This is a global team providing services to the global FX business within CIB Global Markets trading room.

The team provides technical support for all back-end components running on FX eTrading environments (more than 600 production servers – Windows or Linux) as well as interconnections with many external trading venues and other internal systems.

Production platforms are mainly installed in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore and most of them live 24/5.

Follow-the-sun support model is used involving teams in London, New York, Montreal, Singapore and Mumbai.

Systems are complex so as part of support activities the range of technical skills involved is wide.

All team members are expected to quickly develop, or already have, a good understanding of eTrading systems (not necessarily FX). All engineers within the team have applications and technologies allocated to them and they are expected to take ownership and be or quickly become experts in these areas.

Out of hours work is regularly required, particularly at weekends on a rota basis. On-call support is also provided by the team.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, problem resolution, activities, change management.
• Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimize impact to clients and internal users, including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, and other internal IT teams.
• Assist in the development, design and implementation of technical support systems.
• Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services.
• Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems, improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency).
• Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs.
• Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities.
• Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with global team.

Candidate Profile

• For this role specifically, we need candidates with strong Python scripting skills as a key requirement able to develop tools for the benefit of production teams and to develop further automation within global platforms.
• Strong understanding of Linux (Redhat) operating systems to tune operating systems for optimum performance.
• Strong all-around IT background and ideally experience in electronic trading markets on similar environments.

Essential skills

• Scripting (Python, Shell, SQL, etc.) and development skills for administration, monitoring and support tools.
• Very good knowledge of DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory.
• Good knowledge of common monitoring tools (ITRS Geneos, Zabbix, …).
• Good network and firewall infrastructure understanding.
• Good understanding of multicast messaging.
• Project management skills to deliver medium scale projects.

Personal Attributes

• Team player
• Self motivated
• Strong analytical skills, follow-up capability and problem solving ability
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Capable of prioritizing tasks and multi-tasking projects
• Flexible and adaptable to new environments. Quickly learn new systems/products

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