Infrastructure Engineer recruitment
Company Overview
TradingScreen, the leading global provider of multi-broker, multi-asset trading systems to the buy-side, is accelerating the technical evolution of the financial markets by providing a fully integrated, customer-oriented trading service platform to institutional investors. The proprietary TradingScreen platform links institutional investors and sell-side firms together to facilitate order routing, algorithmic trading, execution management, clearing, and additional value-added services, such as pre-trade analysis, real straight-through-processing, post-trade analysis, and prime brokerage enabling across all asset classes. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Madrid, Geneva, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.
Position Overview
We are currently seeking an Infrastructure Engineer for our New York office. This is an exciting and challenging position with exposure to a broad spectrum of technology. The Infrastructure group is responsible for managing and engineering the company’s global solutions for networks, firewalls, servers and storage. The ideal candidate will have experience with the UNIX operating system, TCP/IP protocols and exposure to either firewall or Cisco technologies.
Excellent communication skills are required since the group interfaces with clients and all levels of the business up to and including the CEO. Additionally the role requires excellent troubleshooting skills, the ability to work under pressure and the ability to innovate whilst being sympathetic to change management process that governs the management of production resources.
Since the group is global and provides services using a “follow the sun” model, the successful
candidate must be an excellent team player able to both pass on and assume responsibility for tasks that require follow up activity across time zones.
Job Requirement
- UNIX/Firewall/Networking Skills
- 2 years+ experience as System Administrator (preferably Solaris)
- Knowledge of volume management. Understands operations and concepts associated with mirrors, stripes, concats and RAID principles in general
- Knowledge of filesystem concepts including newfs, growfs, fsck filesystem logging
- Thorough understanding of virtual memory, understands the concepts and operation of paging, swap devices, memory based filesystems and virtual addressing
- Experience with performance troubleshooting; ability to identify isolate issues associated with CPU, I/O or memory
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP and can perform basic network troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of support Java applications in production an advantage
- Understands connection TCP establishment and teardown
- Understands NAT and stateless versus stateful firewalls
- Knowledge of Checkpoint a plus
- Knowledge of WAN protocols (EIGRP, OSPF or BGP)
- Knowledge of HSRP, VRRP, Spanning Tree and VLAN tagging (802.1Q)
- Product knowledge of the Cisco or Juniper range a plus.
To apply, please send resumes and cover letters to syseng-careers@tradingscreen.com noting “infraeng” in the subject line.
