Our Client is a proprietary trading firm with employees in the Netherlands, UK and US.Their culture emphasizes teamwork, and focuses on continuous integration and test-driven development.
Job Function & Responsibilities
• We are seeking a talented and self-motivated Dev Ops Engineer to join our growing engineering team
• Work closely with engineers, traders and quants to maintain, enhance, support and monitor all aspects of the trading infrastructure
• Excel at multitasking and comfortable working in a demanding, state of the art trading environment
• Own technical issues when they arise, either seeing them through to completion or handing off to the proper escalation/support path
• Build and enhance operational dashboard, comprising of all critical and non-critical path datasets; effectively interpret existing data and create new metadata to identify inefficiencies of the entire trading lifecycle
• Build and maintain scripted toolset to enhance areas of data analytics, application configuration/deployment, data consolidation and all other areas that could exploit automation where not already implemented
• Hours for this position are 11:00 pm - 7:00 am CST
Location
• Employee must be an US citizen
• Work location in the US is generally flexible and subject to approval
Education
• Bachelor's degree in a technical area such as computer science or engineering
Required Experience & Skills
• Comfortable in an object-oriented scripting languages such as Python
• A self-motivated personality with a passion for solving complex problems
• Proficiency in Linux strongly preferred
• Familiar with SQL or similar relational database system
• Exceptional communication skills
• Financial domain knowledge