Platform Engineer

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join our Trade & Platform Support Engineering team in Singapore. You will support our proprietary quantitative-trading platform, ensuring reliability and high performance across global ops.

You will collaborate across Development, Infrastructure, and Networking to keep the trading environment running smoothly. The role demands strong Linux, scripting, and monitoring skills, with exposure to FIX protocol and large-scale

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in financial services supporting trading and post-trade systems.
• Experience in managing large scale deployments/environments.
• Experience supporting applications in a Linux environment.
• Strong scripting skills – Python, Bash, Shell, Perl.
• Experience developing tools and/or automating processes.
• Experience with supporting FIX protocol.
• An understanding of monitoring, and performance management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong ownership experience and track record of delivering results.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first point of contact for production issues, support requests, and alerts.
• Investigate and resolve incidents or outages in real time, escalating when necessary.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Networking teams to monitor connectivity and hardware across the investment platform.
• Work directly with Portfolio Managers on project work and ad-hoc support requests.
• Manage regional Change Control and lead Incident Management processes.
• Partner with software-development teams to ensure smooth deployment of new code to production.
• Automate recurring processes and build internal tooling to improve efficiency and system resilience.

Skills

Python

Bash

Shell scripting

Perl

FIX protocol

Monitoring

Incident management

AWS

Docker

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

ITRS Geneos

Control-M

q and kdb+

GPFS

NFS

Docker

Job description

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join our Trade& Platform Support Engineering team in Singapore. You will be part of a global group that delivers front-line support for our proprietary quantitative-trading platform. Working alongside colleagues in the UK and the US, the team provides follow-the-sun coverage—24/7 monitoring and support of Schonfeld’s trading environment—while partnering closely with Development, Infrastructure, and Networking teams to ensure the platform’s connectivity, hardware, and software remain reliable, maintainable, and high-performing.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the first point of contact for production issues, support requests, and alerts.
• Investigate and resolve incidents or outages in real time, escalating when necessary.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Networking teams to monitor connectivity and hardware across the investment platform.
• Work directly with Portfolio Managers on project work and ad-hoc support requests.
• Manage regional Change Control and lead Incident Management processes.
• Partner with software-development teams to ensure smooth deployment of new code to production.
• Automate recurring processes and workflows, and build internal tooling to improve efficiency and system resilience.

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in financial services supporting trading and post-trade systems
• Experience in managing large scale deployments/environments
• Experience supporting applications in a Linux environment
• Strong scripting skills – Python, Bash, Shell, Perl
• Experience developing tools and/or automating processes
• Experience with supporting FIX protocol
• An understanding of monitoring, and performance management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong ownership experience and at rack record of delivering results
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

We’d love if you had:

• Experience performing FIX certification/onboarding
• Experience with NFS and GPFS filesystems
• Knowledge of storage devices
• Experience with application monitoring systems such as ITRS Geneos
• Experience with Control-M job scheduling
• Knowledge of q and kdb+
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Docker