Junior Trading Operations/DevOps Engineer
Flow Traders is currently seeking to hire a Junior Trading Ops/DevOps Engineer to join their expanding Trading Operations team in Amsterdam. This opportunity offers a chance to become part of a prominent proprietary trading firm known for its innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. The company is keen on engaging sharp and innovative minds and empowering them to utilize their skills to the fullest.
As a member of the Trading Operations Team, you will be responsible for ensuring the performance and stability of the proprietary trading systems and associated hardware within the firm's technology framework. You will play a vital role in tackling technical issues related to the in-house trading applications and your input will directly impact the company's performance. Furthermore, you will collaborate closely with various departments to enhance your understanding of the proprietary trading applications, their functions, and ongoing development.
In this role, you will take on responsibilities as an SRE, Operations Engineer, and Developer.
What Your Responsibilities will involve:
- Mastering the latency-sensitive trading application stacks, aiding in troubleshooting in a fast-paced setting, and implementing effective solutions.
- Developing, testing, and integrating monitoring solutions utilizing APIs derived from the proprietary trading applications to monitor the health and performance of the trading environment.
- Collaborating with system administrators to optimize Linux-based trading environments using tools offered by the latest Linux distributions.
- Working in tandem with Cloud SREs to manage the distributed systems landscape.
- Contributing efforts to completely automate infrastructure and application management.
- Establishing, utilizing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Conducting user acceptance testing across internal application stacks and gaining deep insights into how traders and supporting teams utilize our software.
- Providing technical requirements to the development process to enhance the operational efficiency of the applications.
- Improving your Python or other scripting skills through collaboration with trading desks to introduce automation into complex workflows.
What You Need to Succeed:
- A degree from a university in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other relevant quantitative fields.
- 0-2 years of work experience.
- Proficiency in Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Skillset in programming languages such as Python, Go, JavaScript, or C++.
- Basic comprehension and interest in networking; knowledge in this field is an advantage.
- Familiarity or interest in technologies like Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, GCP is advantageous.
- Strong team player with a willingness to acquire new skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
Please note that Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. Submission of resumes or candidate details directly to Flow Traders employees via email, the Internet, or other means without a valid and signed search agreement will render the candidate openly available to contact without any limitations, and Flow Traders will not be liable to pay any placement fee if the candidate is hired.