Trade Application Support Engineer - Hedge Fund - London

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Hedge Fund in London seeks a Trade Application Support Engineer to join their operations team. The role involves supporting the full trade lifecycle, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and managing trade processes, requiring strong technical skills and the ability to resolve issues quickly while maintaining high accuracy.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in Linux environment.
• Experience in front and back-office trade support.
• Attention to detail with ability to multitask.

Responsibilities

• Live trade lifecycle monitoring and management.
• Resolving trade settlement issues in a timely manner.
• Ownership of production footprint and system improvements.

Skills

Linux

Python

SQL

Excel

AWS

FIX trading protocol

Hands-on experience with low latency market data

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Git

Bitbucket

Jira

Docker

Job description

Job Description

Trade Application Support Engineer – Hedge Fund – London

Working with a leading Hedge Fund to secure the services of a Trade Application Support engineer to join the London team. The Trade Application Support analyst is a key member of the operations and investment team supporting full trade lifecycle trade processes, including but not limited to: startup, live trading system monitoring and triage, outages, data cleanliness, reporting, and trade analysis functions.

This person will work closely with the portfolio managers, software/network/systems engineers, and various operations teams.

The candidate is required to have a strong technical background in Linux environment, experience in front and back-office trade support, attention to detail, ability to multitask with changing requirements, and urgency to tackle live production issues.

Base Up to £130,000 + Bonus £30,000 + Benefits

Key skills:

• Hands on experience with low latency market data and order management systems, internal or third party
• Working knowledge of FIX trading protocol
• Technical proficiency with Python, Linux, SQL, Excel, AWS, ability to debug scripts and code
• DevOps experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Docker is a plus
• Strong analytical and detail-oriented aptitude; a high degree of accuracy is required Excellent communication and organizational skills with friendly demeanour
• Ability to manage time effectively, set priorities and meet deadlines, mentorship of junior members

Desirable skills:

• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, PagerDuty)
• Familiarity with FPGA, microwave, multicast systems
• Job scheduling tools (e.g., Cron, Redwood RunMyJob)
• Bash/Python automation skills
• Awareness of SLAs and incident response best practices

Responsibilities:

• Live trade lifecycle monitoring and management with attention to follow up tasks and postmortems
• Post trade processing and resolving trade settlement issues in a timely manner
• System integration with development teams and external counterparties
• Software Deployment,
• Client Reporting Support,
• Investment and Operational Projects as needed
• Ownership of production footprint, e.g. identify system improvements, automate daily tasks, document existing and new workflows

Please apply now for immediate consideration and further details.

Keywords: Trade application support, low latency market data, order management systems, FIX trading protocol, Python, Linux, SQL, Excel, AWS, DevOps, Ansible, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Docker.

Scot Lewis Associates Ltd is acting as an employment business.