Application Support Engineer – Equities

CW Talent Solutions is partnering with a leading equities-focused investment firm to hire an Application Support Engineer. This role will support the firm’s in‑house trading and analytics tools, ensuring stability, monitoring, and support for key business lines including equities trading, risk, portfolio visualization, and market data.

• Monitor and automate application and infrastructure alerts, reacting quickly to issues
• Ensure system stability and uptime for all tools under management, including application and infrastructure/cloud monitoring
• Troubleshoot and support user queries across the equities trading teams
• Identify areas for improvement, assess business risk, and prioritize remediation
• Administer handoffs to other regions and follow up as necessary
• Flexibility to work weekends or shifts for releases and meetings
• Build subject matter expertise and become the go-to person for your area of responsibility

• Basic knowledge of equities products and experience interacting with portfolio managers/traders
• 5+ years professional experience in Python, Unix/shell scripting, and SQL
• Familiarity with Dev Ops tools (Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, Maven, AWS) is desirable but not mandatory
• Self‑starter with ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies (public cloud, serverless architecture, etc.)
• Highly motivated with strong ownership and problem‑solving skills