Role:                   FXe Trading application – Production engineer

Rate/Salary :     GBP 400/Day

Location:            London, UK

Job type:            Contract – 6 months

Detailed JD *(Roles and Responsibilities)

The applicant will be part of the team that provides technical support for all back-end components running on FX eTrading environments. The team also manages connectivity to many electronic trading venues (ICAP/EBS, Reuters FX Matching, Currenex, CBOE-HotSpot, LMAX, Euronext FastMatch, CME, Bloomberg, MOEX …).

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, problem resolution activities, change management.
• Assist in the development, design and implementation of technical support systems.
• Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services.
• Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems, improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency…).
• Follow Sun- support model of production support

Essential Skills:

• Strong all-around IT background and proven experience in electronic trading markets on similar environments
• Strong understanding of Linux (Redhat) operating systems to be able to tune platforms for optimum performance
•  Scripting (Python, Shell, SQL….) and development skills for administration, monitoring and support tools
• Good network and firewall infrastructure understanding
• Good understanding of multicast messaging (ideally in a Tibco RendezVous environment)
• Ability to analyse network captures
• Project management skills to deliver medium scale projects

If you’re interested in this role, forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to cv@ibuconsulting.com or apply online