Trading Systems DevOps Engineer

Quant Capital ,
London, Greater London
Salary: Up to £100,000 per annum + benefits and bonus

Overview

Trading Systems DevOps Engineer Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Trading Systems DevOps Engineer to join our high profile client. Our client is a well-known global Prop Trading firm. (No experience of finance is needed). They like technology especially the open source variety as well as scalability and robust performance (much like their track record). This is an environment of google or a startup where tech is number 1 The firm is known globally for its attitudes and rigour more importantly, you will be surrounded by smart people deeply interested in teaching what they know, and in learning from you. On a day to day basis you will: · Hack, join, evangelise and generally create interesting solutions and routes to market. You should be able to code but also rack a server and potentially play around all through the application layer. · Work with the developers to write code for the trading infrastructure · Improve the stack of tools and systems for managing, monitoring and configuring the infrastructure. · Working with financial institutions on on-board new venues and products. · Improving systems admin practices and tooling for systems and operations. Candidates MUST have: § At least 4 years’ professional open source systems experience § A bright mind and good problem solving skills § Good demonstrable scripting in Python or Ruby or Haskell, Lisp, Erlang, Go § Solid Linux systems and operations experience § Enjoy automating processes as this will be a major part of the role. § Experience or an interest in functional programming from Scala and Haskell to Erlang § Ideally Build/deployment technologies, such as Maven, CMake and Rake § You will probably know you are right for this job if you aren’t sure it’s probably not for you. § Eagerness to learn new skills and technologies § An appetite for delivering solutions to complex problem You will likely be a developer or ops engineer/SRE who has potentially bootstrapped at a startup or who seriously plays with tech at home whilst frequently contributing to the open source world. This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89941006