Summary
Join Flow Traders as a Junior Trading Ops/DevOps Engineer to contribute to the performance and stability of proprietary trading systems, working closely with different departments to gain knowledge of trading applications.
Requirements
- University degree in Computer Science, Maths or other quantitative fields
- 0-2 years work experience
- Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems
- Proficiency with any of the following programming languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, C++)
- Basic knowledge and interest in the field of networking is advantageous
- Knowledge or interest in technologies such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, GCP is a plus
- Strong sense of teamwork and willingness to learn new skills
- Good communication skills
- Good decision making and problem solving skills
Responsibilities
- Gain expertise of our latency sensitive trading application stacks, contribute towards troubleshooting in a fast paced environment and implement solutions
- Write, test and integrate monitoring solutions with APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications to provide insight to the health and performance of our trading environment
- Work closely with system administrators to understand and fine-tune Linux based trading environments using tools provided by the latest Linux distributions
- Work closely with Cloud SREs to operate our distributed systems landscape
- Work on our efforts to fully automate our infrastructure and application management
- Build, use and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Conduct user acceptance testing across the internal application stacks and gain a deep understanding on how traders and supporting teams utilize our software
- Provide technical requirements to the development process to continuously improve the operational effectiveness of our applications
- Advance your Python or other scripting skills by working together with trading desks to identify and implement ways to automate complex workflows
