What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trading Systems Application Support Engineer position at Ztek Consulting?
Candidate Requirements:
- At least 5 years of application support experience.
- Comfortable with Client / server architecture, Linux OS, AWS and a good working knowledge of Kafka messaging / docker containerization.
- Proficiency with Bash; a scripting language such as Python or Perl would be beneficial.
- Detailed practical knowledge of FIX protocol.
- Experience using relational Databases (eg MySQL, MS SQL).
- Good knowledge of trade flow, asset classes and trade life cycle.
- Understand fundamental concepts with regard to PnL calculation, understanding key data inputs that affect risk views would be beneficial but not required.
- Highly organized, detailed, control oriented, enjoys solving problems and brings in a "take charge" attitude.
- Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with brokers, exchanges, senior management and portfolio managers.
- Ability to articulate complex issues into a high-level summary for senior management.
- Self-motivated individual that takes initiatives and has an ownership & accountability mindset.
- Must show the ability to make quick decisions and establish priorities in a multi-tasking environment.
- Experience with the Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, Service Desk) would be useful.
- Experience in building out Geneos monitoring including backend scripting and implement customizable alerting for bespoke / custom alerts.