Head of Quantitative Strategies Stamford, CT

Platform Support Engineer

We are seeking an experienced support engineer to join our Trade and Platform Support Engineering team. The candidate will be a part of a team that provides front line support for our proprietary quantitative trading platform. The team provides follow-the-sun support (alongside counterparts based in UK and US), offering 24/7 monitoring and support for Schonfeld's trading environment while closely working with the development teams to ensure reliability, maintainability, and performance of the production environment.

The Platform Support Engineer will serve as the first point of contact for production issues, support requests, and alerts. They will investigate and solve issues/outages as they occur, escalating as necessary. The Engineer will collaborate with software development teams to ensure successful deployment of new code into production. The ideal candidate will also automate processes and workflows and build tooling for our environment.

• At least five years of experience in financial services supporting trading and post‐trade systems
• Experience 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 supporting FIX protocol
• Understanding of monitoring and performance management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results

• Experience performing FIX certification/onboarding
• Experience with NFS and GPFS file systems
• Knowledge of storage devices
• Experience with application monitoring systems such as ITRS Geneos
• Experience with Control‑M job scheduling
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Kubernetes

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $150,000 and $200,000. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.