Systems Engineer II - ESP

CME Group Inc.; Belfast; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global derivatives marketplace is seeking a passionate Systems Engineer II - ESP to enhance system reliability and performance. Join a dynamic team in Belfast responsible for maintaining and improving technology platforms. Ideal candidates have strong problem-solving skills, cloud experience, and a collaborative mindset. Competitive benefits and hybrid working arrangements offered.

Benefits

Bonus Programme

Equity Programme

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Private Medical and Dental coverage

Mental Health Benefit Programme

Group Pension Plan

Income Protection

Life Assurance

Cycle To Work

EV Car Benefit Scheme

Gym Membership

Family Leave

Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree

Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification

Hybrid Working

Qualifications

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills are essential.
• Experience in a trading environment is advantageous.
• Basic knowledge of networking (HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers and teams to maintain and troubleshoot systems.
• Own escalated incidents and support incident response.
• Assist in migrating applications to Google Cloud Platform.

Skills

Experience with Linux & Windows-based systems

Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities

Excellent effective communication and teamwork skills

Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems

Exposure to metrics & monitoring (e.g., Splunk, Grafana)

Experience with Infrastructure as Code

Competent scripting skills (Python, Bash)

Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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Systems Engineer II - ESP

Apply locations Belfast - Millennium House time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id 32836

We are seeking a passionate Systems Engineer II - ESP (Tue - Sat) to join our dynamic team.

The Systems Engineer II - ESP (Tue - Sat) will help ensure the reliability and performance of our trading and clearing server environment.

The successful applicant must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and work both independently and collaboratively.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Systems Engineers, SRE's and Product engineering teams to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot our Markets systems technology platform .
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve observability and alerting of our platform to enable data-driven business decisions, faster issue detection and incident resolution.
• Contribute to incident response and on-call rotation - own and resolve escalated incidents, identifying and mitigating root causes associated with distributed computing architecture (client server, intranet/internet), h/w platforms and resources: CPU, memory, virtualization, clustering and Cloud computing.
• Take accountability for delivery of moderately-complex incidents, problems and changes.
• Lead technical discussions for own work and present solutions and approaches.
• Support the migration of markets applications & infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Assist in automating tasks to enhance system scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system performance and efficiency
• Defines problems and describes the cause and effect relationship; gathers and compares data about the problems with supervision and documents the details
• Act as a mentor to L2 and L1 colleagues.

Skills:

• Experience with Linux & Windows-based systems and Cloud-based platform(s).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Excellent e ffective communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems.
• Exposure to working with metrics & monitoring:Splunk, Grafana etc.
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code.
• Competent scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, GKE, and/or GCE.
• Basic knowledge of networking (HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP).
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes
• Experience in Financial markets.
• Experience working in an agile environment.

Company Benefits:

• Bonus Programme
• Equity Programme
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Private Medical and Dental coverage
• Mental Health Benefit Programme
• Group Pension Plan
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Cycle To Work
• EV C ar Benefit Scheme
• Gym Membership
• Family Leave
• Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
• Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification
• Hybrid Working

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