Trading Operations Engineer

Davinciderivatives; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Excellent variable pay

Comprehensive benefits package

Training period in Amsterdam

Meals during work hours

Relocation package

Social events and after-work drinks

Job summary

Davinciderivatives is seeking a Trading Operations Engineer in Miami. You will manage trading systems, ensuring stability and performance while adapting to ongoing changes. Ideal candidates have strong technical skills in networking and scripting, and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

The role offers a competitive salary, performance-based variable pay, and comprehensive benefits, alongside the unique opportunity to train in Amsterdam and participate in exciting social events.

Qualifications

• Experience with mission-critical infrastructure and software support.
• Intimate knowledge of networking, operating systems, and hardware.
• Proficient in scripting with bash or python.

Responsibilities

• Oversee system performance, stability, and uptime.
• Automate and test new technology.
• Manage applications in production.

Skills

System performance management

Infrastructure management

Scripting (bash, python)

Networking

OS (Windows, Linux)

Incident management

Performance monitoring

Strong communications skills

Job description

About the Role

As a Trading Operations Engineer at Da Vinci, you’ll work closely with a team of skilled traders, researchers and software engineers. You’ll be responsible for managing our trading systems, making sure they run smoothly in day-to-day operations, with future growth in mind.

As our trading systems are highly customized, balancing stability with ongoing change is one of the key challenges in this job. Our engineers often need to learn on the go, so we are looking for people who enjoy exploring unfamiliar territory.

Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a growing and successful company, and to play a key role in achieving our ambitious goals for our new Miami office.

Responsibilities

• Oversee system performance, stability and uptime
• Automate the environment and test new technology fads
• Architect, implement, maintain and monitor our rapidly growing US production environment
• Manage applications in production, and monitor their behavior
• Address potential failures and bottlenecks to proactively prevent obstacles

Requirements

• Experience managing mission-critical infrastructure and software support (in a trading environment is a plus)
• Intimate knowledge of networking, hardware and OSs (Windows, Linux)
• Familiar with tooling and best practices regarding change, life cycle and incident management, as well as health and performance monitoring of production systems
• Proficient with scripting (e.g., bash, python)
• Quick at analyzing issues and uncovering their root causes
• Eager to learn and understand all aspects of the trading environment
• Ability to spot inefficiencies and proactive in optimizing systems
• Strong communications skills, including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical audience

Benefits

• An opportunity to work beside the best in the field
• Competitive base salary based on experience
• Excellent variable pay based on performance
• Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
• Relocation package when moving across states
• Training period in Amsterdam to get to know the team
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Meals during work hours
• Social events and after-work drinks