Application Support Engineer - Hedge Fund

We are working with a leading hedge fund, investing heavily into their systematic strategies. They are looking for an engineer to join their technology operations team, taking responsibility for infrastructure / application production support, and operations of the systematic trading platform.

You will:

• Provide front line support for systematic trading platforms
• Ensure reliability, maintainability and performance of production environment
• Serve as first point of contact for production issues, support requests and alerts
• Investigate and solve issues and outages as they occur, escalating if necessary
• Collaborate with software development teams to ensure successful deployment of new code into production

They are looking for someone with:

• Experience managing complex deployments and environments
• Experience supporting applications in a linux environment
• Understanding of monitoring and incident management, with experience using Elastic, Service Now or Jira ITSM
• ITIL certification or equivalent incident management trading
• Understanding of FIX protocol
• 8+ years of experience in the financial services supporting trading & post trade systems
• A degree in Computer Science or related subject

You will join a dynamic team, with the entrepreneurial spirit of a small firm within infrastructure & technology or a large organisation.